‘They pretend like they care about marginalized groups then gloss over the fact these 3 dudes murdered literally millions of people.’
Miscategorizing Lenin, Stalin, and Máo as ‘fascists’ is pretty careless in and of itself, but it’s the ableism that really necessitates an apology. Unacceptable.
Coincidentally, though, Serbia under Axis occupation classified communism as a mental illness.
Anytime where someone says a single person literally murdered millions of people they are completely off-base and out of touch (unless we’re literally talking about the fingers that push the buttons which send the nukes). The only reason why you can even blame a single leader for the deaths of millions during war is because you are accepting the concept that abdicating responsibility for one’s actions up the chain of command is a valid thing to do.
I would say even the hand pushing the nuke button is a consequence of a long string of actions and conditions leading to that moment.
Lenin had nothing to do with any periods of mass death last time I checked. That doesn’t even apply.
There was famine in 1921, he worked himself basically to infirmity to stop it.
fellow tankies,
have you ever considered that mao was actually the real fascist?
sincerely,
another tankie
There is a great book on actual Chinese fascists called Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937, and it focuses specifically on the CC Clique and the Blueshirts (not to be confused with the Irish Blueshirts), who were part of the Guomindang. They were a Confucian bunch who promoted interclass harmony, ultranationalism, (traditional) masculinity, conservatism and futurism, among other phenomena.
One of my favorite parts:
On the flip side, some Blue Shirts insisted that Communists were in fact indistinguishable from garden‐variety hedonistic denizens of the colonial concessions, whether Chinese or foreign. Communists, in this telling, did not merely disguise themselves in a manner that revealed their immorality and craven acquiescence to colonial violations of Chinese sovereignty. Rather, a Communist was essentially the same as any other self‐indulgent bourgeois.
A 1934 article in Sweat and Blood Weekly came to this conclusion based on the readiness with which Communists took cover in Shanghai’s colonial settlements. Communists might proclaim themselves to be anticapitalist and anti‐imperialist, but they in fact delighted in the decadent pastimes on offer there.
“Like capitalists,” the author explained, Communists reveled in “its Western‐style buildings, cars, mistresses, roulette wheels, dancing, horse and dog races, and massages—all manner of earthly delights.” They might champion things like “proletarian literature” but they certainly did not live like proletarians.
Not all that different from contemporary antisocialists making fun of socialists for using smartphones or some shit.
Sweat and Blood Weekly
What a nerds lol
Ah yes the classical ministry of psychic hygiene take.
