Do you not notice how you're falling on the side of liberal anticommunists even within this thread? I think by that alone it would be worth seriously considering if you had been misinformed on some of these issues.
The largest departure Lenin made from classical Marxism was based on the plain and simple error Marx and Engels made that revolution would need to come from within heavily-developed states. This is unilinear thinking, and in reality the capitalists were able to export immiseration to the third world to give concessions to the domestic proletariat and reduce the (still severe) stratification enough to fend off revolution.
And the word “tankie” does get used by armchair anarchists A lot often inappropriatly.
Have we been reading the same thread? The anticommunists here don't care about your nuance or your support for AES states other than the USSR, they will call you a tankie if you speak in defense of any of those other projects.
Incidentally I don't think the Spanish Civil War proves that the USSR was "fascist", even if the USSR's actions are worthy of criticism.
Careful, these liberals will attack Trotskyists the moment they offer any positive opinion on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. It won't get you anywhere trying to be One of the Good Communists, it will just give you a chance to be a useful idiot for liberals who don't actually support you.
Socialist Cuba would not exist today without the support of the Soviets, especially but definitely-not-exclusively Khrushchev, who I hate but need to give credit on this issue and acknowledge is some kind of leftist even if not a Marxist.
Anarchy worked great in practice, until Franco killed it.
It is worth mentioning that this means it did not work in practice because it was killed! Yes, the same can be said of ML projects like Burkina Faso that were toppled and thereby had very little they were able to pass on in the long term except lessons (Sankara was incredible and his band mate who betrayed him was a bastard). Communes are great when you don't have capitalist-aligned states who want to destroy you, but currently the state of the world is one where capitalist encirclement is an inevitability.
basic historical realities like the deliberate engineering of the holodomor
You should be embarassed. The consensus even among neoliberal historians (and not neoliberal pop-historians like Applebaum) is that it was not "engineered" and the Soviets did not desire to starve the soviet peasantry in the area because that's a hysterical double-holocaust myth.
If the anarchists try to violently destroy the DotP as it is being made, yes, but then those are shitty anarchists who aren't appreciating the larger battle to be fought against imperialism.
Do you not notice how you're falling on the side of liberal anticommunists even within this thread? I think by that alone it would be worth seriously considering if you had been misinformed on some of these issues.