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[–] Matthew@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a lot a reasonability in the space between neoliberalism and "Stalin did nothing wrong"

[–] Ooops@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And not everything left of Eastern European nationalism is communism. In fact 90% of the political spectrum lies between these two extremes.

[–] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of space in the left that isn't stalinism. You can be a communist and have a deep critique of how 20th century communism worked, a learning from it and not wanting to repeat the bad parts.

In leftist circles in the US, weird Stalin and Lenin fans are loud, but ultimately not that common.