99% of all the bad shit that has happened in the last five centuries around the world has been because of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, feudalism, slavery. Left anti-communists are still like “yeah but we still need to focus on that remaining 1%, meaning the lack of instantaneous perfection of the USSR, even though it ceased to exist over thirty years ago. Also let’s talk endlessly about China.”
Regarding these tweets here, I’m remembering what Norman Finkelstein’s parents said. They weren’t communists, but Stalin freed them from the Nazi concentration camps. They said that any Jew who criticized Stalin was a traitor. (I’m also writing this as a Jew.)