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  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Did I say you were a fascist? I said that anti-communism leaves the door open to fascists. And I said that ideologically vulgar anti-communism is the underpinning of fascism. These are both true. If you make your community about anti-communism, fascists will come. And fascism gains power when the capitalist class is in crisis and chooses a less profitable closed society that keeps the left in check rather than see their power realistically challenged.

    You can laugh all you want at easily researched facts but they’re still true. China. I’ll edit when I find one for the USSR that isn’t a lecture or a book, but in the meantime reflect on how they went from feudal farmers to the first people in space within a generation yuri Oh. And they did it without the stolen wealth of entire continents in the southern hemisphere.

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          He would actually put me in a gulag for being queer, an anarchist, and an Esperantist; but if historical revisionism is what helps you sleep at night, you do you.

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            Maybe anarchists shouldn’t have murdered Bolsheviks and attempted to enact terror plots against the Soviet Union and they wouldn’t have gotten liquidated by the USSR?

            Just sayin’

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              It’s funny how you use the word “murder” to describe the anarchists’ killing and then switch to a euphemism (“liquidate”) the second you talk about the USSR’s killing.

              Shows how completely brainwashed you are.

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                Liquidate doesn’t refer to murder though. Liquidation means to dissolve or disband political organisations, which is what I was referring to.

                If you think that I’m euphemising the fact that the Red Army destroyed the Black Army then your implicit bias is showing because they were at war with one another. Murder isn’t something that is applied to enemy armies which have engaged one another in war. I’m not complaining about the Black Army killing Bolsheviks in war. That’s what happens.

                I’m talking about literal extrajudicial murders of Bolsheviks by the Makhnovist secret police.

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                I forgot that I’m talking to an anarchist.

                Sources: Nestor Makhno in the Russian Civil War by Malet, pp. 51-52, 103-104, and 129. Before you say it, here’s Malet in his own words in the preface:

                It will be clear from the book that the author has some sympathy with Makhno and his ideals, but he trusts that this has not led to gross distortion or untruth.

                Kontrrazvedka: The Story of the Makhnovist Intelligence Service by Azarov, pp 32-33 but there’s plenty more in there too. Before you say it about him, too:

                Azarov was active in the Social-Democratic Party of Ukraine but left that party when its anarchist fractions were expelled. In 1999 Azarov was one of the founders of the political party “Union of Anarchists of Ukraine” (SAU). At the founding congress Azarov was elected chair of the the chief executive organ of the SAU.