I’m simply asking this question because of Lemmygrad.ml existing, and that there isn’t a far-right equivalent of it yet. If Lemmygrad has any standing for its right to exist under free speech, where is the line drawn for other extremist political ideologies? If Holodomor skepticism is allowed, then what stops Holocaust skepticism? (as it is generally accepted the Holodomor was man-made). I’m simply wondering what gives far-left politics a right to promote such extremist views in the Fediverse, when their far-right counterparts would be Defederated in minutes.
Tankies aren’t far-left. They’re liberals (right-wing) under a red flag. “Communist” countries are simply state capitalism. The relations that matter—workers owning and self-managing their productive lives—wasn’t, and isn’t, present. To the worker, the boss is the boss, and exploitation is exploitation. Even Lenin admitted he wasn’t establishing socialism, but allegedly waiting around until it grew out of the German industrial core of capitalism. Meanwhile, he destroyed the worker councils and slaughtered actual leftists as “counter-revolutionaries” (e.g. the Kronstadt Rebellion). His was just an excuse for more capitalism. Nothing leftist about it. Don’t tolerate apologia and equivocation. IOW this: Noam Chomsky on Leninism.
Should actual leftists (anarchists, other libertarian socialists, and even the state socialists who at least don’t try to pretend that authoritarian shit under various red flags met our goals) be “allowed”? Of fucking course! Liberty, equality, and fraternity should always be goals to strive for, and liberalism stands directly in the way of those goals.
Right-wing extremism? Fuck no.