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What’s the most bizarre thing you have seen on Lemmy so far? (lemm.ee)

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[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

Leftists claiming Stalin was right wing.

[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

I can sort of see where they’re coming from, if they’re equating authoritarianism to conservatism and libertarianism to liberalism. But in reality, Stalin was a left wing authoritarian.

[-] uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago

If we look at the rhetoric, the soviet state was certainly left wing, but the main policy was state capitalism. To my mind, state capitalism is not a right wing (favors private control of industry) nor a left wing (favors worker control of industry) policy.

This is definitely a case where pure left/right dichotomy doesn't serve to accurately describe the situation on the ground.

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