Debate it, already got a decent idea about what it is

ML is goo difficult for me to engage in because there’s too much defense of stalin I find tbh. Maybe I’ll check out hexbear though

“Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation” this describes the USSR pretty well. The US is also bordering on fascism, but that has little to do with the USSR. Those weren’t really labor camps so much as they were POW camps for fascist opponents. Also what’s your opinion on north korea?

Fascism is about power not private property. Not sure where you got that Spanish anarchists operated labor camps as I can’t see any evidence for that online but even if that was true, a system can’t be said not to be fascist because someone else did it. Having forced labor camps is fascist regardless. Also you say that they sought to repress those critical of socialism or communism, but it was usually used to repress basic forms of expression and those critical of the leaders.

How was the gulag system not fascist? Along with it’s heavy surveillance and censorship state?

The soviet union and north korea are the most obvious examples as both of them followed ML

You could look up the anarchist front in iran and Afghanistan. That’s not Iraq obviously but might interest you

In an anarchist society automation is amazing. In capitalism though it’s meh because as you say it puts people out of their jobs

Tbh the only form of marxism at this point that feels legitimate is council communism. ML is just red fascism now

This was a good response. What about marxists that support council communism? I don’t know much marx theory but I feel that council communism is different than a traditional state

This is pretty good to read even if it doesn’t completely answer my question it helps a lot

Perhaps some introductory anarchist texts, I think most of them give a good description of was authority is, although you can easily think of authority as anytime someone has power over another person. Whether that power is to force them to do something they don’t want, say something they don’t want, or violate their own bodily autonomy in a way they do not want

Very very true

Modern Holocaust happening in the 21st century

This could be good

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/donald-rooum-and-freedom-press-ed-what-is-anarchism-an-introduction

A lot of countries opposed Germany in “ww2” because they wanted their country to be the global superpower, not Germany. So it’s not that they had an issue with Germanys ideaology, but instead felt threatened by it’s existence, similar to how the US and USSR felt threatened by each other’s existence. In fact both the US and Soviet union had policies of their own that were pretty similar to the nazis. The US had Japanese internments camps, along with racial segregation. Soviet union had gulags and the great purge

Exploitation. Everything is built around exploitation. Of course capitalism is not the only exploitive system that exists, it’s just the one most visible to us.

So true

Lol this is me basically. I find sports especially areas with heavily sport focused culture off putting and honestly revolting

This is good thank you