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@lemans34271yr1Y
Oh, you haven't seen anything yet. Look at the hundreds of millions murdered by Stalin in the USSR.
@9CJ6CB61yr1Y
The man was a dictator, but on the scale of things, not really much of a socialist.
For your information, socialism and communism are not the same thing. Communism is a form of anarchism – have you ever read the Communist Manifesto as I have? – it believes in classless and stateless utopia where everyone contributes to the "common stock" and takes only what they need from it. Socialism, they believe, is the path to get to these anarchist utopia – they must have an incredibly large government that socialises healthcare, nationalises industries, breaks up monopolies, sets wages and prices, spies on its citizens, and taxes the rich to hell, and redistributes wealth. You're wrong – Joseph Stalin was a textbook socialist!
@9CJ6CB61yr1Y
It is BECAUSE I understand the difference that I don’t consider him as such. Stalin violated a thousand strong tenets of socialism, such as a free press and democratic government. He even said himself, “Freedom of the press, too, is a kind of beauty which one must have loved to be able to defend. It is something which I love truly, whose existence I feel to be essential, to be necessary to me so that without it I cannot live at peace, or live a full life”. Marx did not approve of or support most anything Stalin did. Everyone regretted him once he died, everyone feared and despised him. He’s not a part of that, and if he’s a socialist, he’s not really a good one, gotta admit.
@9CJ6CB61yr1Y
Here’s some more funny things: Marx was a HECK of a libertarian as he aged, eventually disliking the idea of public schools at all, same as you. He likely wouldn’t have approved of Lenin, let alone Stalin. Russia was also probably the last place he’d expect to turn to his ideals considering the fact that they hadn’t begun an Industrial Revolution in the first place, and were still mostly agragarian.
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