ozymandias

the equivocation between chaos and anarchy is a deliberate tactic to malign the philosophy.
if every time there was riots people yelled “there’s communism in the streets!” it wouldn’t change the meaning of the word.
throwing libertarian in there is just nuts so i see this going nowhere.

anarchy isn’t just the lack of hierarchy, it’s an organization of society without hierarchical government.
a riot is chaos, not anarchy.

i suppose it’s an understandable knee jerk reaction to assume that.
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i wrote it because when i see riots there’s usually “it was anarchy on the streets!” somewhere….
but in this case there was a large number of people who saw someone needing help and decided to help, which is actually anarchy on the streets…

The point I was trying to make was that Stalin and his followers claimed to represent Communism when they in fact did not (not even close).

that was the point i was making

my point is that stalin didn’t represent communism, as is widely claimed

not sure what “logic” you used to get to that…
many people do claim that all criticism of israel is just antisemitism, nobody claims that criticism of nazis is a criticism of the german people.

some people have claimed that socialism, which is part of the nazi acronym, is bad because nazis are bad… but that’s pretty rare, so not worth noting when talking about them.

I don't want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks

it’s pretty obvious that you do

what a lame troll

certainly not you arguing that i said something i didn’t, and then that i shouldn’t say something

Stalin tied himself to communism as much as possible, all critics of communism tie Stalin to communism as much as possible.
think reeeeeLly hard about how that might be a relevant point to be had.
also lemmy is chock full of tankies tying stalin to communism but pretending like he was super good and all of the bad things he did were western propaganda

no i’m not, i also don’t care about arguing with someone this dense