alexei_1917 [any]

I mean, I catch myself falling for Soviet nostalgia crap that ends up in the West a lot, despite having been born long after the dissolution, but like, the Western left as a whole has a Soviet obsession and Eastern Bloc nostalgia problem. Lot of Western communists who didn’t live through the Cold War but miss it anyway, along with those who did live through it and miss when just being a communist was in and of itself revolutionary and dangerous and Doing Something. People who love Soviet aesthetics and still want Red Dawn to actually happen, instead of having to lead a local revolution and take local culture and material conditions into account.

So, this might not work that well in the actual former Warsaw Pact… but it sure as hell works in countries that were on the other side of the Cold War.

That is… Very strange. But also not that surprising. Lot of Russian “past power and glory” nostalgia relies on the Orthodox church and tsarism just as much as it relies on Stalin era USSR or post Great Patriotic War Soviet nationalism.

Of course capitalism can’t be at fault for everything, that’d be too obvious! Blame the trans people and the commies, they make you feel icky so they must be the cause of your problems! All the conservative populists say so! It’s not class war, it’s obviously queer folks who are the dangerous minority, not the top 1%!

using the books for heat instead of knowledge

Yep, that tracks for your average liberals.

Bunch of terrified liberals hiding in a fortified public library, burning the books for heat, eating the pigeons, and blasting out annoying nonsense over emergency broadcasting, claiming it’s Red Dawn out there, while sane people are enjoying a socdem doing a few decent things… that’d make a good story. And sounds about right for post Red Scare Americans.

Funny. Everyone wants to be all “people will blame capitalism when bad things happen” but then can’t understand that the problems they’re worried about would literally only happen because of capitalism. Ugh, liberals.