watched a video by some liberal about nostalgia for communism in eastern Europe, and it's just interesting how it reveals how liberals are ideologically unable to parse what arguments marxist-leninists are even making. from the video:
When people in Eastern Europe express nostalgia for a time when they lived under communism, they're not nostalgic for these communist systems, per se. They're nostalgic for specific things that happened to exist under communism, like job security, free healthcare, affordable housing, and most importantly, the ability to actually maintain a stable family. And that's the most common thing you hear. For all its faults, the past communist systems at least guaranteed a certain level of stability. And shitty stability, a comfortable prison, is often better than the anarchy of the free market.
People aren't missing the secret police or the one party dictatorship. They're missing the parts of the old system that actually worked for ordinary people. They miss economic security, but do not miss the political repression.
Imagine if the only time in your life where you were guaranteed healthcare and free education was under a dictatorship and now you don't have access to that. You have to pay for healthcare and education. It's a privilege, not a right. Does missing the health care system mean that you want the dictatorship back? Or does it just mean that you're pissed that a so-called democracy couldn't give you access to what a shitty authoritarian regime was able to provide?
okay so like. you see what's happening here, right?
when marxist-leninists point to these polls, they are not saying "see, people love oppressive undemocratic systems", they're instead saying "we should question the assumption that marxism-leninism is an oppressive undemocratic system." they- we- are saying "marxism-leninism should be understood first and foremost as an economic system, and if any marxist-leninist nations have fallen short of their ideals of democracy and liberation, these failures are neither inherent, nor exclusive, to marxism-leninism."
but liberals have spent so long percolating in the propaganda narrative of "marxism-leninism is undemocratic and tyrannical" that they've forgotten that this is a smear they are pushing onto marxist-leninists, and not how marxist-leninists understand themselves. like they don't think marxists think their system is democratic but they're wrong, liberals think marxist-leninists are just walking around thinking "wahoo! I love undemocratic tyranny!"
so when someone tries to say "actually marxism-leninism isn't undemocratic or tyrannical" the liberal can't even undetsrand the argument and just goes "whaaaa??? are you saying undemocratic tyranny is good? prove to me right now that undemocratic tyranny is good. oh ho! you have failed to prove to me that undemocratic tyranny is good! I win! 😏"
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