Been seeing a lot of people coming in here handwringing about 'red fash' and 'muh authoritarianism.'
Figuring that this will be a common occurrence for a while, so wanted to make a collective thread here. The purpose of this is to just have one spot as so we don't fill up the comm with a ton of posts about it.
Post away, comrades!
And Lenin warned them that if they didn't adopt a command based politic, their revolution would never get off the ground to even contest with capital. It's almost as if he was absolutely correct too!
But hey, I too love fighting about irrelevant politics of a century ago.
Edit: Also, the workers have infinitely more effective political power in any AES than in their comparable capitalist counter parts. Try telling a Guatamalan leftist that Cuba is bad because their workers have 'no effective power'. It is literally just the lack of imagination that a hierarchy can be used to benefit more than just the very top. Literally just transplanting one-to-one the American political experience to other countries with no extra thought.