B0ycey wrote:I didn't see him reference that at all. He made a point. A point you missed but I agree with.
He was responding to my remarks in my address to Left Nationalist wherein I specifically state that if rural rust belt folks get an option where the politician simultaneously claims to share their values (which I specifically list) and to support their economic class, that politician will tend to win just as Trump and Hitler won in their respective ways.
Potemkin is an admitted Stalinist, so when he includes Stalin in a list of people that are simultaneously pro-working class and share working class values of pro-religion, patriarchal, anti-gay, anti-abortion, patriotic, and ethno-cultural chauvinist. I can only assume he missed my list of these values or is being sarcastic.
B0ycey wrote:I don't make such a claim. Nor did Pote. He just made a point that this is what you get under such conditions. Stalin stood for the people that were fighting for revolution. What he achieved was not in their interests. Similar to that of your fellow Rustic-belt neighbours. But while Trump might use religion as his wolf blanket, stalin used the hatred of Tsars for his. The only difference is objective.
Once again, he is pro-Stalin, so I doubt he is arguing that Stalin is an evil that can arise under certain conditions as you are identifying with Trump and Hitler. Trump and Hitler won because they advocated not only being pro-working class, but sharing their very traditionalist values. So, if you and Potemkin are not making that claim, then you are not actually addressing anything I said in the first place.
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