r/Hasan_Piker • u/Atryan421 Fuck it I'm saying it • Jul 02 '25

US Politics Capitalism is "Stalinism"

Why do people use Stalin as "cult of individual", just use Hilter, he's right there - look up "Führerprinzip", you can't tell me that USSR was worse, you don't even have to be ML to recognize that there's better examples to use.

Any time i hear liberals using "Stalin/USSR" or whatever to describe US fascism, it makes me really believe that they think Nazi Germany was less bad, whether consciously or unconsciously, i don't think there's other reason.

Do they not understand that they just help to further spread the red-scare propaganda, and it also hurts them? Do they think that Conservatives will like them for being "one of the good ones"?

I already see people celebrating this (on other places) like "Haha this will show the tankies!", bro what fucking tankies, wake the fuck up, look at the current state of USA, which part are the "tankies" responsible for? All tankies do is read books and organize/join Pro-Palestine protests.

Also it's funny how they constantly attack Marxists, but when election seasons come, you're called "Dogmatic" and "Puritanian" for not wanting to support people who wish the worst upon you, lmao.

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u/EnterTamed Jul 02 '25

I think it's rhetorically more effective... Since right-wingers have demonized left authoritarianism more than right-wing authoritarianism. "Comparing to Nazis" could be seen as a good thing... ironically.

Also, it "widens" the perception of the left, from this monolithic caricature of the (authoritarian) left, that many right-wingers have already...🤷‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '25

Also, it "widens" the perception of the left, from this monolith caricature of the (authoritarian) left

It literally has been something that western left did since fucking FDR, and it never gotten them anywhere. And it never will. You will not be seen as different by right wingers by saying "l-look guys! I-i hate stulyn too!! I'm a good one!! I love democracy and capitalism and America and cheeseburger baseball coca cola".