this is the real left unity

so one of the problems is a lack of primary sources. we have Makhno’s words himself, and we have what the newly founded Soviet Union who crushed them said. there is not any primary source that anybody is going to call ‘unbiased’ and so, you can find things which portray Makhno as a bandit piece of shit who actually wanted to kill all the jews in Ukraine, and you can find things about being a staunch defender of the liberty of the peasants of Ukraine.

I’ll play my cards and say that I am a Marxist Leninist, and so quite obviously a fan of the Soviet Union in this era. I do think that in the long term the soviet union was far more stable than a roving peasant army which failed to build many institutions in a time of crisis, but it’s no secret that Trotsky got a lot of people killed unnecessarily for quite flimsy reasons where negotiations could very much have far lessened the bloodshed if not avoided it outright.

history is not an outright ‘these are the good guys who did nothing wrong, and these are the bad guys who were 100% evil’

it’s a difficult topic to talk about because, as I said, a total lack of solid sources. everything is heavily biased to one side or the other. and, not to sound like a centrist, but sometimes truly the history is somewhere in the middle. many of those under Makhno really did see themselves as the true embodiment of peasant liberty, as did Trotsky at the head of the Red Army. I do not think Mahkno was a ‘bad’ person, I think he truly saw himself as a revolutionary, I do not think he was equipped to carry out that revolution. I think it is always a tragedy when leftists turn on one another in sectarian violence, especially in such a revolutionary moment when every person matters so much more to defend that revolution. to me, the answer of what was best, to leave them alone or to some how gain control of Ukraine? has to be that the Ukrainian anarchists never would have held off counter revolution or foreign intervention like the Red Army had to time and time again.

the NHS or on demand ice cubes. I mean wow, fuck, he’s really got me wavering here

it’s the idea that FALGSC will only come about in the west, and insulates the white first world workers from needing to work, keeping their skin light at they don’t go out in the sun

idk why people think these posts are so hard to understand! they can be obtuse in some of the phrasing, but the concepts tend to be pretty straight forwards

yeah, walmart represents first world opulence and mass consumption

ealmart absolutely is a temple to opulence. it’s an endless stream of cheap goods, you can get anything you need there

tbh I think this is more to do with the tech industry than the games they make. you see this shit in every aspect of tech, from game dev down to just boring office work. tech is an absolutely toxic place for women, ethnic minoities, and anybody who isn’t cis het

I genuinely can’t get over some closet chud went full actual psycho nazi posting, yes nazi posting, because of pumpkin spice latte