• Iam_Cat@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Did you just seriously say that there has never been a left wing racist mass murderer with a superiority complex?

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        1 year ago

        Certainly been a few waving the flag of socialism/communism that have lead to those consequences.

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          1 year ago

          It’s not uncommon for fascists to adopt socialist rhetoric to try and gain mass appeal. However that falls away under the lightest scrutiny of their actions and ideology. “National Socialism” is the most obvious example. I’d include Pol Pot in that bucket as well.

          The USSR under Stalin and PRC under Mao are a bit different. The government in either case made decisions that led to unnecessary death, but there’s no evidence to suggest any of their missteps were motivated by racial animus.

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            1 year ago

            Mao’s Great Leap Forward was him trying to push Communist ideology onto nature. He had one hammer in his tool box and tried using it on everything.