Stalinist party, cult of the individual

Parenti was right to quit being friends with Sanders. History vindicated that decision well before this.

Bookchin hated him too

Even the most cartoonish caricatures of Stalin by Western propagandists doesn't come close to the level of bloodshed and pure evil emanated by each of the heads on that mountain.
- Or the bloodshed involved in dispossessing the Black Hills from the Lakota

wtf is alt-left?

The weird fucked up and crazy offshoot of the real left, which is of course the democrats
alt just means bad now
alt-right? bad
alt-left? bad
alt rock? bad (this one has always been true)
- Alt-tech, Alt-A, alt.* hierarchy, Alt-y-Graig railway station... it really is all bad
I seen that dumbass all over .ml with this take lately. From the context alt-left means basically "left that is not sucking up to liberals"
vindicated
Alt-left means communist beyond the barest social affections and liberal-academic truisms.

Satan opposed unjust authority. god is the one who demands love and obedience.

edit: oh stalinist not satanist. Whatever I'm leaving it

uncritical support for Comrade Satan in their struggle to unseat god and end the dictatorship of the angels
- Wait, I thought we like Angles because he gave Marx so much money?

From the bluesky replies:

I actually choked on my drink while reading this. A statement so truly bizarre that it nearly killed me.

It's true, the USSR never recovered from Lennon's death, they were huge Beatles fans over there.
- Imagine no possessions
  I wonder if you can
  They no longer could after Lennon was gone
- what do you think the hit song "Back in the U.S.S.R." was about?
No nation has ever been capitalist, socialist or communist. Every nation is a dictatorship, paying a percentage of the population off, threatening the rest into believing they are a bastion of civilization and virtue.
Fukuyama will love this one
I have taken psychic damage from this
- I’m sorry, I couldn't suffer alone.
The only thing preventing utopia (me being king and you all being my slaves) is national governments
True communism has never been tried… nor capitalism or socialism.
no nation has ever been
I don't want to share a planet with these people anymore
I mean Craig isnt wrong. Technically if everyone was dead there'd be no nations, poverty, sickness, or homelessness. He's just advocating for human extinction guys.
"I am the walrus"
- I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video
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fyi this is how you can put alt text (and, separately, a title which is displayed as a tooltip) on images on lemmy.
- Thanks, I couldn’t remember how to do it the right way and the lemmy markdown guide is kinda vague so I didn’t get it at the time. I think it should be good now!

you all are being so mean when zohran clearly drained all the left sentiment out of bernie sanders body, antisemitically

Bernie, shut the fuck up forever, you zionist.

If the answer to "Am I currently facing a wall?" is "No" you can be be safe in knowing that a "Stalinist" party has not yet taken power, Bernie

"bernie will hang me in central park"
"we will hang bernie in central park"
I wish a "Stalinist" party would take power in the US. Maybe then the sins of that guilty land could finally begin to be purged. Maybe then the US would actually do some good for the world. Maybe they could actually spread Freedom and Democracy by supporting other communist revolutions. Instead of just saying they're Spreading Democracy as an excuse to bomb civilians in countries 90% of their population can't point to on a map.

Bernie comes out as Trotskyite.

That would be cooler than the reality of it

"if you're a leftist you're actually a trump supporter" -bernie sanders recently for some fucking reason

i want my money back you old piece of shit

fuck you Bernie you liberal zionist piece of shit

I have to imagine Stalin enjoyed widespread popularity for providing leadership and marshaling forces during a global, industrial war of extermination brought by fascists, and that any opportunism of others in the political sphere hitching their wagon to him by way of open, blind support, was owed to his achievements.

comparing MAGA to that is absurd. what has Trump achieved? celebrity/reality stardom? he isn't even that popular, and all he's done is exposed how there is a much larger demand for a politician saying they will do something than there is a supply for the same.

a Hitler comparison would be much more apt. some asshole, inflaming the worst people by talking shit non stop while hosting slop rallies, but ultimately being an incompetent and cowardly leader who mistakenly believed himself brilliant and capable.

Anticcmmunism is a helluva drug. How many times you read Americans describing something terrible happening in their country, and they always add “we become / is like North Korea”

I swear to god Americans - even the “smart” ones - are so intellectually incurious. Who was Josef Stalin? What did he think and do? Doesn’t matter don’t care, just talk about him like he’s a comic book villain, no one will call you out on it anyway.

Oh Bernie, it's hard to be friendless in DC, huh? Gotta suck up to the Dems who resent the shit out of you and that involves sucking up to Republicans to maintain decorum