• pirc_lover@feddit.ukEnglish
    6711·
    5 days ago

    fr i’m not a huge fan of using the hammer and sickle as an emblem given the atrocities carried out by the USSR like the holodomor.

    like you can be in favour of a planned economy without simping for stalin’s regime.

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      302·
      5 days ago

      Yeah, it’s really appaling… I see this around my hackerspace and on events all the time as well. I don’t get how people can look at history and be like “oh damn, that symbol shows exactly what I like: worker’s unionizing!”. Discussions usually won’t lead anywhere though, way too often they’ll either tangle you up in never-ending theories and hypotheticals from the last century (which never worked) until you resign and they feel victorious or excuse even the most abhorrent individuals, let it be Guevara or even Mao.

      At least online you’re able to quickly block people…

      • Another Catgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        12·
        5 days ago

        Aha, I see what you mean. I interacted with a local organization named after Che Guevara, but the structure of the organization has evolved towards anarchist structure, in ways that prevent the abuse of power that Guevara was known for. So the name of this organization now contradicts the organization structure on the axis of authoritarianism.

    • laserm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Reminder that states of the former Soviet Block were more brutal union busters than US capitalists and that they participated in huge ethnic cleansings. Solidarnost, the movement that moved Poland past the iron curtain, was literally a union!