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Another reason why left unity fails to understand the contradictions between anarchism and marxism.
There is no unity and will never work as you need all others to subordinate themselves to one group and abandon their ideals, that's not happening.
We will not bow to states.
Leninism is authoritarian and imprisoned and killed many anarchists. Trotsky believed in the state and spread lies about anarchists as he slaughtered people, he was not some nice guy and was responsible for the same state that eventually killed him. He helped set it up and justified the atrocities but wants to blame it all on Stalin.
Lenin was another person who people let off easily because they see what Stalin did and think Lenin was some good guy where the soviet union was going to be this friendly utopia until Stalin came along. This is total BS. Lenin was the one ordering the deaths and destroyed Worker's democracy and control so that the state could take over. He set up the prisons that became gulags which many anarchists became victims of. He set up the secret police and one party state. All this stuff existed before Stalin.
Queer liberation wasn't a thing in the USSR, some laws were abolished and it removed the ban on homosexuality but it didn't improve life for gay people and they still faced discrimination and the laws weren't for the entire union but Russia and Ukraine. Liberation my ass. They still were criminalised in other republics.
I never understand why Mao is not considered as evil as Stalin because he literally was the Stalin of China and he actually knew what Stalin's collectivisation did in the USSR where the famine happened and even Stalin himself advised Mao not to collectivise too fast as not to repeat the same thing but after Stalin dies, Mao does the same thing knowing what will happen, his defenders try to claim he didn't know people were starving which is nonsense and his policies were unrealistic and disastrous. He caused the deaths of so many millions of people.
He later launches the cultural revolution where many more people would die and wreck the country, ethnic minorities faced discrimination. He was a menace and people had to wait until his death but they had to cry for the dictator at his funeral. He was a horrible man and maoists are stalinists, part of the sino-soviet split was about defending Stalin as the USSR was de-stalinising. Mao didn't like that and defended Stalin as well as the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. This is why Maoism and Hoxhaism consider themselves anti-revisionists because they see Stalin as a great heroic revolutionary who saved socialism and see Khrushchev as a revisionist who "overturned socialism in the USSR". Yes they believe Stalin brought in socialism. So you cannot separate Mao from his Stalinism or Maoists from it as it's the core of their beliefs.
Maoists also despised Trotsky, every Stalinist hated Trotsky and trotskyism and had hunted them down. In Vietnam Ho Chi Minh had trotskyists there massacred so they won't ally with MLs either.
Too many think it's about individuals and see it as not being a problem if the "right person is in power". That's not how it works. The problem isn't individuals but the state and they will continue to oppress people. There is no socialism in any of these states, stop falling for it. States create tyrants like Mao and Stalin as when one has so much power, they will abuse it. Retrying it isn't going to lead to a better result and another tyrant will rise and oppress more people. We must stop these and people should not be ruled by anymore masters.
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