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medicinemane · 1 month ago

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At least even when I was a teenager and identified as communist, I was still never a soviet apologist

(And as I got older I came to dislike the USSR more and more and more, also seeing that soviet apologism kinda tended to fuck things up for western communists cause they'd be so busy running defense for people who didn't like or care about them, that actually getting policies passed to help western workers came second to being a tankie)

(Straight up, while I was volunteering in Quebec, one of the people I stayed with had this book by her uncle about being a Canadian communist, and he basically pinned soviet apologism as the whole reason he left the party cause they were more interested is doing PR for the kremlin than they were interested in like... unionizing in Canada)

Anyway, tankies suck, soviet apologism suck, and I'm glad to be able to say that even when I was a communist I didn't fall into that trap... like thank fuck for that, you know?

#honestly my positions as a teenager were more or less what they are now; just not as clear and using different worse terms #these days I'm just so sick of legislating what's socialism; what's capitalism; what's whatever #that it's like man... I think robust social safety nets are good in a lot of ways including for the economy #and I think that probably using currency makes more sense than barter #I just also think strong regulations are important cause otherwise you wind up with rat shit in the food (need stronger than we have)#and I think that handing out that money via welfare is a good way to get people spending and also living decently #so call that whatever the fuck you want; I don't care about the label; I care about achieving those goals or something similar #really just don't like labels these days; like descriptivism where I describe what I am and let other people fill in the blanks #makes for a lot less confusion than post communist when I'd always have to be arguing over what a socialist was #I no longer give a shit; I yam what I yam; and what I yam is someone who likes welfare and making sure people have enough #also fucking over big companies; I'm for that over all #part of the reason I stopped being a communist is I've had this rule for years now that says #'groups of roughly more than 50 people start getting corruption'#communism 100% works on a small scale; most households are communist; everything into the big pot to serve the communal good #my minecraft server is communist; we don't sell each other stuff; all goes into the same pot and we take and share what we need #at a scale of like 10 people communism actually works great; isn't a dirty word at that point #it's chipping in and being part of a community #(you gotta be a real messed up group of people for sharing and pooling resources to lead to mass graves when there's like 5 of you)#but in a big group communism is a great way to have the worst person get absolute power; it just sucks ass and should never be done #wonderful in theory; but doomed 100% of the time in practice; never do communism on a government scale #but anyway; same reason I hate communism is why I also hate mega corps... lot more than 50 people #and what do you know? they're corrupt as shit #other thing about less than 50 people; you can kinda more directly see when someone sucks #and you can kick em out; or you can leave; or you can say 'that small business is awful; I'm never shopping there'#I don't know; I'm just thinking outloud at this point; I can't give you some detailed polisci paper in fucking tumblr tags

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