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If your first instinct as a westerner is to criticize and lecture 3rd world communist movements, instead of learning from their successes, then you have internalized the patronizing arrogance of the colonial system you claim to oppose.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (4 children)

i've been blocking (and getting banned from) plenty of .world politics and "history" comms.

its really that terrible. red scare propaganda and anticommunism dressed up as "leftism".

i had someone imply to me they admire marx engels and lenin and condemn socialist "authoritarianism" in the very same post recently.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

lenin

Would have been bad enough to specifically name Engels, but Lenin? hahaha oh wow

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Leftism is when you vote for the democrats unquestioningly with out applying any sort of pressure or having primaries.

A recent question I've been asking my democrat friends in real life, now that trump is hiring 20k more ICE gestapo, lets say Democrats win the midterms and then win the next presidency; do you think they will fire them all? Do you think they're going to "look soft on crime" and "defund the police" when they refused to last time during massive nation wide protest? The answer is pretty obviously no. The DHS and the USA-PATRIOT act are not even on the table.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

i feel democrat equivalent parties all over the world are like this now. the pretense is literally the only thing left in them, and its paper thin at this point.

"real" socdems would at least fucking try somewhat.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm glad I'm on db0 and can still see posts from .ml, hexbear, and .world.

I can get a gauge of what people from all servers are saying, and I'm finding the gist that what you're saying is correct.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

the amount of defederation infighting and sectarism going on here is stupid, ngl. we should definetly grow up to be at least more united.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The current McCarthyite tactic is to use "tankie" and "authoritarian" as the code-words for anyone who dares to oppose US / NATO hegemony and align themselves with the anti-colonial projects. Only the US-aligned countries are allowed to be "authentic marxists", and everyone else is labeled a tankie.

These people have no concept that everyone from Paul Robeson to even MLK was called a "dirty commie", or that the US is drone bombing like 8 countries in the middle east and north africa as we speak.

[–] Staines@hexbear.net 12 points 23 hours ago