Wars and proxy wars since 1776.

EDIT: The post is not an endorsement of the USSR. You can now stop fighting for your “team” and start defending the anti-war values you claim to uphold.

  • flandish
    56·
    2 months ago

    where does anyone say “our imperialism is the good kind?”

      • flandish
        511·
        2 months ago

        to indicate those under that flag have been saying “always have been” - it’s the meme.

        • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          62·
          2 months ago

          It’s rich to use it when it is that Russia is actively conquering and annexing territories of sovereign states.

          • flandish
            36·
            2 months ago

            tip: two things can be true at once and calling one out (the usa) does not mean you support the other. grow up.

      • PugJesus@piefed.socialEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        The Red Terror during the Spanish Civil War comes to mind.

        No ideology is without its fanatics.

        • jwiggler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Thanks, I’ll read up on it.

          But from what I’ve read so far, the violence wasn’t exclusively from anarchist groups and more of mass violence from all leftist groups during that time towards clerics and rightists?

          • PugJesus@piefed.socialEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            The violence wasn’t exclusively from anarchist groups, but in anarchist-dominated areas, the anarchists committed the same kinds of violence that other leftists did.

            This isn’t to say that the anarchists were not the best of the lot, by far. Only that the notion that anarchists don’t engage in unjustified mass violence against political enemies because of the sheer purity of their convictions doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.