it seems like there’s a certain kind of person who’s been so brainwashed by the systems of imperialism that they think oppression is a necessary function of human society. from this position, they decide that an imperial-capitalist regime that adopts the aesthetics of liberation must be better than overt fascism or neoliberal fascism because at least aesthetic communism as practiced by the soviet union or people’s republic of china implements a few more pieces of progressive reform than overt fascism or neoliberal fascism.

from that position they presume leftists who criticize aesthetic communism (which i consider to be one of the fascisms) must be anticommunist even if what we are is anti-authoritarian communists ((anti-authoritarian) (communist)). they will not listen to advice that soviet symbols turn off a lot of leftists across the world who see that symbol as the symbol of the soviet capital class. they’ll call us typical liberals if we do this even if our core beliefs are to work toward a hierarchiless, moneyless, stateless society