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Remember the post I made a couple of days ago about wanting to leave my party? Well now they want to hold an event about authoritarian leftism
Dont leave yet! Go down swinging! get them to kick you out and make them all look like authoritarians!
Don’t worry, I plan on unleashing a discussion about it, where I will make my stance clear. Apparently there was also a vote at the last national meetings to denounce stalinism and maoism and to allow checking if future resolutions aren’t due to authoritarian influences. A lot of people in the party that I vibe with approved the vote.
I feel like the party has more important things to worry about then Stalin and Mao
I wholeheartely agree. They are near irrelevant but they don’t even want to work together with organisations they deem to be authoritarian.
Left wing parties as soon as their member count goes from one to two:
Also on the topic of “maoism” since 1911 China had been in a constant state of civil war and faced a foreign invasion that seeked the subjegate and exterminate the entire country maybe the “Authoritarianism” in a result of that constant state of terror