I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

      • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
        168·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, he was basically warning Socialists off getting in bed with Stalinists and similar regimes just because their causes appeared to align. The cure must not be worse than the disease.

      • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        55·
        1 year ago

        i would argue that he saw the soviets as the bigger threat at the time, considering the Nazis got beat a few years beforehand and a lot of the left in the west were fanboying the Soviet Union at the time (1947-1948)

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          33·
          1 year ago

          You are missing the point of the book IMO. The threat is not necessarily external.

          It was pretty easy to see totalitarianism as a dangerous global trend at the time, since it was in Germany, Italy, Spain, Soviet Union, China, Eastern Europe. Apart from Eastern Europe, these countries all “chose” it for themselves.

          • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            1 year ago

            I never said anything about the threat coming from the soviets, after all it was never about Russia invading the UK, but rather he modelled the dystopian government based on the inner workings of the Soviet Union, because he witnessed it during his time in Spain before the Stalin aligned republic and the anarchiss split.

    • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      74·
      1 year ago

      Modern capitalist Russia is closer to 1984 than Soviet Union. Fuck Putin.