Conservative reactionaries since the French Thermidor Reaction opposed it, believing communalism and eventually socialism undermines their existing hierarchical, feudal system. Stalin also did not help matters at all.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah Stalin was like "You want to see totalitarianism with socialist window dressing?"

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

This is also why I can't stand tankies. Worshipping the Soviet Union, China and even modern day Russia. Clearly the "is not The West(tm)" is the important part for them, not socialism or communism. Also, I've had interactions with people on reddit where they said that the mass deportations were absolutely justified, etc.

Look, I also want a lot of the things socialism offers, without necessarily going full communist. But I'll argue all day that Nordic countries do it better. Not perfectly of course, there's still billionaires and there are still issues. But people are by and large much more free than they are or were in any of the countries tankies love, and those who aren't well-off still have it much better than they do in, say, the US.