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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.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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I'm so glad I don't let lemmy.nazi federate to my server lol
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.
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.
Fuck dronies.