How do Marxists see the USSR, China under Mao, Hoxhua, North Korea, Pol Pot, and Sendero Luminoso?
Let me guess:
USSR and Mao generally good, particularly given circumstances; Hoxhua who?; North Korea better than South Korea (and PRC even today is better than ROC); Pol Pot wasn’t a true Scotsman; and you like at least a few RATM songs.
“If Russia says combating the glorification of Nazis are bad, they might be using too many modifiers.”
fyp
The anti-Semites have the right to play.
Stalin was a Nazi ally from 1939 to 1941.
US, Canada, Australia, and most of Europe voted against censorship.
It seems Iran was absent, but Israel voted for it.
From 1939-1941 the UK fought Nazis while the USSR collaborated with them.
South Korea abstained, but North Korea voted for it, as did Myanmar.
and I’m sure that from, say, 1991 to 2021, there were a lot of pictures of fascists, nazis, and other far-right riff-raff taken in Russia.
It may be unintentional, or well meaning, but ultimately it does serve to apologize for fascism.
Assuming he is that bad—which again I’m not sure, though I think he is or close to it—but when someone calls me a fascist, I find it hard to take them seriously. It’s like when someone accuses me of having TDS my typical reply is of course that I indeed have TDS, anybody who doesn’t worship Trump has TDS.
IIUC, you’re telling me that when it comes to Palestine, Biden is no better than Trump, or conversely, Trump is no worse than Biden.
At times I tend to agree with this, but I say it while acknowledging that I don’t know everything about the issue—I am no expert on this. For all I know, Biden might be worse, or Trump might be worse; which is why I wouldn’t be so quick to call someone who thinks one isn’t as bad as the other an apologist for fascism. IMO, if you say that, you better know what you’re talking about. You want to bash Biden or the Democrats from a leftist POV, go right on ahead, but your (apparent at least) pontificating makes you look like an elitist.
What is prompting you to ask me these questions? Because it seems like you’re just trying to derail.
I’m trying to understand why you replied with what you replied.
I could start asking you completely unrelated questions as well, but it would just be wasting time.
Ask away.
Incidentally, my answers are no and yes, respectively.
Thank you for answering the questions.
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Presumably they wouldn’t curtail it for Trump, but they might for Biden.
I’ll put it in question form.
Do you believe that there are no non-leftists who oppose the genocide of Palestinians?
Do you believe that there are liberals who oppose the genocide of Palestinians?
Netanyahu is no better than Hitler,
Hitler was no worse than Netanyahu.
Both committed mass murder and genocide and are therefore equally evil.
Agree?
and do you think that Trump is no worse than Biden when it comes to supporting genocide?
I’ll take that as a “Yes, no non-leftists oppose the genocide of Palestinians.”
So according to you, there are no non-leftists who oppose the genocide of Palestinians.
Then by your definition, I’m an apologist for genocide.
I suppose “ethnic cleansing” is a euphemism for genocide.
You think republicans are gonna prosecute biden while trump is doing the same thing?
Congressional ones who have little hope in becoming President might. Also many are hypocrites.
they just got scotus to rule that the president is above the law.
Didn’t SCOTUS did that by themselves—I suppose to reward Trump for choosing them.
Many Americans would rather vote for a leader who supports Israeli genocide of Palestinians a little less than the Republican candidate who supports Israeli genocide of Palestinians a little more. It’s why if I was American, I’d support neither Democrats nor Republicans.
Thank you for your reply. 😁🙂