The US political spectrum is leaning so far to the right. A US left is a France center or moderate right. So what Americans consider communism is merely what French consider moderate leftist.

I’m French living in the US

[–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's basically "If you keep calling all of the stuff I like 'communism', then I guess that makes me a communist."

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Or if you’re not a Nazi you’re a communist, then I’m a communist I guess.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Hell even Obama was right wing to many countries.

...this was before we all dove headfirst into facism as a trauma response

[–] gxgx55@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure, but the meme refers to the communities on the internet that unironically go full tankie, praising Stalin and Mao.

Worst of all, tankies tend to inflitrate sane leftist spaces and slowly transform them. I've witnessed it many times, and that just makes me think that Marxists-Leninists are just the most dominant form of leftism on the internet, which is horrible.

[–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This doesn't mention Stalin or Mao.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think a lot of people give Mao a bad wrap.

For what it's worth, Stalin is a monster, and the state of China right now is repugnant.

Mao didn't intentionally lead tens of millions of people to starve in the same way Stalin did. Mao was trying to revolutionise agriculture (The Great Leap Forward) but didn't understand the ecological and logistic principles required.

I'm convinced his intentions were good, he just wasn't educated enough to implement something like this.