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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I believe they have noted it, but they consider it more minor and less important than Marxist historians do.

Interestingly just like the british, the US itself went through various phases of disputes with its own settler frontier terrorists that it empowered, when it wanted to do the conquering in a more "orderly" manner (although the goal never changed). A lot of these are chronicled in Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - an indigenous people's history of the US.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That is another western chauvinist talking point. That any development of industry (the primary task of countries who've just freed themselves from colonial rule), is a "betrayal" of socialism, because it didn't go according to whatever the given critic laid out as sufficiently socialist enough, and that only the western critics of socialist countries have the correct plan.

China specifically can't be called state capitalist in the slightest, considering that the CPC stands above the political system, unlike capitalist dictatorships where capital rises above political power:

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

The US was not an anti-colonial country; it was a british settler garrison that broke away in order to conquer the continent unhindered by British treaties with native peoples. Westward genocidal expansion and the theft of land were the goals.

The actual anti-colonialists in the revolutionary war (the indigenous peoples), rightly sided with the British in that conflict. Unfortunately their loss resulted in the decimation and near-genocide of hundreds of tribes. Sun-yat-sen and Ho Chi Minh and other revolutionaries were rightly scared that their countries would suffer the same fate.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most of them are 3rd world countries because of these movements...

There's far too many of these to list, but lets take Vietnam and the DPRK as examples:

  • Between 1963 and 1973, The US dropped ~388,000 tons of napalm bombs in vietnam, compared to 32,357 tons used over three years in the Korean War, and 16,500 tons dropped on Japan in 1945. US also sprayed over 5 million acres with herbicide, in Operation Ranch Hand, in a 10 year campaign to deprive the vietnamese of food and vegetation cover.
  • US dropped large amounts of Agent Orange, an herbicide developed by monsanto and dow chemical for the department of defense, in vietnam. Its use, in particular the contaminant dioxin, causes multiple health problems, including cleft palate, mental disabilities, hernias, still births, poisoned breast milk, and extra fingers and toes, as well as destroying local species of plants and animals. The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange.1, 2
  • US Troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians, including women, children, and infants, in South Vietnam on March, 1968, in the My Lai Massacre. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated. Soldiers set fire to huts, waiting for civilians to come out so they could shoot them. For 30 years, the three US servicemen who tried to halt the massacre and rescue the hiding civilians were shunned and denounced as traitors, even by congressmen. 1
  • In 1967, the CIA helped South Vietnamese agents identify and then murder alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in villages, in the Phoenix Program. By 1972, Phoenix operatives had executed between 26,000 and 41,000 suspected NLF operatives, informants and supporters.1

Vietnam and the DPRK are absolutely success stories, for breaking their colonial chains, and defeating the most powerful and evil empire in history.

Alse China is not a capitalist country, its a mixed economy with the planned socialist sector predominant, and the communist party standing above the political system.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

Ah my bad, yes I agree, both are success stories.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't understand. Nearly every successful anti-colonial revolution in the 20th century was communist or Marxist influenced, Vietnam was no different. Vietnam was successful because their decades long struggle against french and US imperialism, guided by Marxist theory.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago (11 children)

The DPRK defeated the US despite it killing 1 out of every 5 people, and having nearly half their country destroyed:

Vietnam suffered similar ruthless civilian bombing campaigns and massacres, and defeated the US.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Vietnam, Cuba, PRC, DPRK, USSR (for 80 years at least). All of them defeated either US, Japanese, French, and German imperialists, and uplifted their people despite the US never letting up.

The PRC's acheivements:

Some of the USSR's acheivements:

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 85 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Throughout the 90s Microsoft was the company equivalent of a serial killer, so Gates had to really step up his public relations. Goldfish-brained liberal techies ate it up.

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

I have no idea what your setup is so you'll need to do your own research on rsync.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Syncthing is very much alive.

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