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I'm not watching a youtube video.
No, such a system already existed, evidenced by the famines, massacres, etc that happened almost yearly in China and Russia before the revolutions.
What I'm getting at is that while the post-revolution states weren't utopias, they were far better than what came before. Telling people otherwise only serves to prolong the status quo.
Also they kinda did have a government ready to go in the case of the USSR, the Soviets.
Except they had and used those mechanisms, as evidenced by the massive improvements to the average person's lives after the revolution.
Apologies, typically when I see people doing anti-communism use the term dictatorial, they mean a single person exercising absolute power. Though I don't understand why you'd consider a dictatorship of the working class "hell".
There was no dictatorship of the working class. They defanged the Soviets - you know the workers' councils that the USSR was named for.
You don't have to watch a video, here's the script text for the entire series:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anark-the-state-is-counter-revolutionary
MLs love reading, don't they? Oh but wait, that's anarchism. Go ahead, tell me it's beneath you and I should read On Authority. I have. It was underwhelming to put it nicely.
And yes, the system they built was on the back of and patterned after the authoritarian monarchist regimes they followed. That's not a favourable light to put that system in. Was it marginally better than a monarchy? Sure, why is that relevant to anything? We live under neoliberal regimes of which none to my knowledge has ever been toppled by an ML revolution.
That ideology is centuries out of date. Anarchists saw its downfall before it started. It's failed.
Even if you're combatting some bizarre strawman about absolute dictators, it's equally bizarre that your response is to attempt to rehabilitate Stalin's character. That puts you squarely in tankie territory.
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Why not?
The way they feed you information is patronizingly slow, and while I'm not expecting a widely cited academic paper published in a reputable journal, Youtube essays are one step below shitposts on internet forums in trustworthiness and academic rigor.
Guess we're watching different video essays, then. Most are edutainment at best, true. But there are *soy many with cited sources on youtube.
I gave them the text as published on the anarchist library, but they didn't seem to appreciate that either. It's almost like they just don't want to learn history that isn't their revisionist version of it.
Everyone knows that any critique of Stalin is CIA propaganda. /s