I would say that learning about the soviet union was the most important part of my "journey" because it was the first time in my life that I discovered an actual living alternative to capitalism. Seeing is believing, and there is no substitute.

This is why I dislike the anti-communist "leftists" so much. They have no history. They have no grounding in the real world because they shun all real experiments in socialism. They cannot learn from past experience or get inspired.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

if you've not already read it, you might enjoy Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture by Jones Manoel

The subject takes pride in not having any relationship with the entire historic concrete movement of the working class socialist and liberation revolutions. They take pride in not having any theoretical or political connection to the revolutions in China, Russia, Korea, Vietnam, Algeria, Mozambique and Angola. They are, instead, proud of the supposed purity that their theory is not contaminated by the hardship of exercising power, by the contradictions of historical processes. Being pure is what provokes this narcissistic orgasm. This purity is what makes them feel superior.