Alaskaball comments on Statists: "There has never been an anarchist society ever! It's just a fantasy!" Also statists: "Here's a map of Europe in 220 BC".... What's all that grey, motherfuckers??

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Stalin should have openly supported the CNT/FAI as well as the Republican government

I guess Stalin should've deployed Soviet armor and airforces to help fight Spanish fascism, maybe even send Soviet armaments and training cadres.

Wait no he actually did that.

The actual blame, yet again, rests on France and England chosing "neutrality" while the Italian and German fascists were running hog wild in Spain before Soviet intervention.

There can be arguments made that there could've been more done by the Soviets, if we ignore historical conditions that the Soviets faced a very real possibility of a two-front war against the Japanese imperialists in Asia and the German-Italian fascists in Europe thus having to prepare for such events, yet insofar as I've seen the Soviets did the best they could in the limited capacity that they could afford.

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[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

this is usually true for 99 percent of events in soviet history, they did their best.

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[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm not talking about the material support which was good and cool and I am in fact more sympathetic to Stalin in this.

But I think he does open himself to critique on his support of the USPC's position of compromise with bourgeois Republican forces and their political position of not establishing a DOtP and, more damningly, rolling back the collectivisation established by the CCMA before it's dissolution.

It is my opinion that this lack of left unity fatally weakened Republican forces on a key front and moreover robbed us of a Western European Socialist experiment.

There were good reasons for these actions, but in hindsight, I feel left unity would have been more productive.

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Pre-postscript message: Could you tell me what acronym USPC and CCMA stand for?

I disagree and stand with the decision made by the Comintern in pursuing the popular front strategy.

In the face of the contrarian trotskyite opposition and uncompromising anarchist uncooperativity, chosing to then immediately alienate the socialist, social democrat, and fellow traveler republican forces in an attempt to appease the vanity of the left opposition would've spelt a more immediate death to the Second Republic.

Trying to push the communism button when you're in a state of conflict and/ or instability is a form of dogmatism that puts the ideal ahead of the material. This was one of the bloody lessons that were learned during the Russian civil war.

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