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Eurocommunism for example, it clashed against Stalinism fore sure.

Communism in prewar Europe was often explicitly Stalinist, such as the original "antifa":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion

>Under the leadership of Ernst Thälmann, the KPD became a Stalinist party that was fiercely loyal to the Soviet government. Since 1928, the KPD was largely controlled and funded by the Soviet government through the Comintern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War#Republicans_...

>It is important to note that there was infighting between the Republican factions, and that the Communists following Stalinism declared the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, (an anti-Stalinist communist party) to be an illegal organization, along with the Anarchists. The Stalinists betrayed and committed mass atrocities on the other Republican factions, such as torture and mass executions. George Orwell would record this in his Homage to Catalonia as well as write Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm to criticize Stalinism.

None of this is relevant to FOSS. I'd rather leave politics out whenever possible. So long as Suckless isn't worse than what's been alleged, I'm OK letting them slide.

I'm Basque (here politic debates were on every TV channel) and my family was sided with the CNT. Please, don´t lecture me on bullshit I know better than you by a huge margin.

Also, as I said, you know nil on Eurocommunism, which opposed Stalinism.

I didn't realize "Eurocommunism" was a proper noun referring to a more recent time period, and not a general reference to communism in Europe. I had never heard it before. My apologies.

It was a distinct ideology closer to a social democracy than a totalitarian dictatorship. Jugoslavia still was a dictatorship, but it they didn't collapse down Jugo under ethnic wars, today it would be something like China but far more open and progressive. State Communism, yes, but without hurting personal freedoms.

Thanks for sticking around and explaining despite my error. Had no idea this movement even existed. The Wikipedia article was quite interesting.

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