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user-inactivated · 3952 days ago · link · · parent · post: Brazil's ongoing protests have become fascist
I think you have a misperception of modern communists. I've never met a communist that endorses Stalin's policies. He's recognized as historically important, which is pretty much undeniable, but many communists today consider him (and sometimes Lenin) to be state capitalist. Modern Western communists are very much towards the libertarian side of that particular political axis. Ironically, communists today kind of have a problem where accusations of Stalinism have become a thought-terminating cliche. edit: this is not to say that i agree with modern communists. there are significant problems with vanguardism, democratic centralism, and other ideas which are still endorsed by the communist parties of today.