• @Ignatz@beehaw.org
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    1121 days ago

    “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.” - George Orwell

  • @Ignatz@beehaw.org
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    520 days ago

    It’s pretty misleading to refer to Stalinist Russia as “the reality of socialism.” Kinda like calling the US the “reality of democracy.” Yes, it is nominally a democracy, yes it is built on democratic principles and has features of a democracy. But democracy is a broad concept and the US’s specific version of that is not the end-all-be-all of democratic systems, it is one example. Implying that the worst authoritarian aspects of the USSR are inherent to socialism is ridiculous.