• Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
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    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
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      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.