All it takes to be a socialist is to believe the workers should own the means of production. Everything else is purity testing… Of greater or lesser validity.
Saying the USSR was justified in every single crime might make you a tankie and a shithead but it doesn’t make you a fake socialist anymore than opposing slavery makes someone a fake capitalist, even if that’s the obvious endgoal of terminal capitalism.
Yeah, I’m with you on this one. Shitty people exist on every political spectrum. (I’m not saying the .ml guys are part of that group, I don’t know)
As long as they desire a worker controlled economy they are socialists in my book, but might also be transphobes, etc.
All it takes to be a socialist is to believe the workers should own the means of production. Everything else is purity testing… Of greater or lesser validity.
Saying the USSR was justified in every single crime might make you a tankie and a shithead but it doesn’t make you a fake socialist anymore than opposing slavery makes someone a fake capitalist, even if that’s the obvious endgoal of terminal capitalism.
Yeah, I’m with you on this one. Shitty people exist on every political spectrum. (I’m not saying the .ml guys are part of that group, I don’t know) As long as they desire a worker controlled economy they are socialists in my book, but might also be transphobes, etc.