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This is a Dengist community in favor of Bashar al-Assad with no information that can lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, our fellow liberal and queen. This community is not ironic. We are Marxists-Leninists.

This community is for posts about Marxism and geopolitics (including shitposts to some extent). Serious posts can be posted here or in /c/GenZhou. Reactionary or ultra-leftist cringe posts belong in /c/shitreactionariessay or /c/shitultrassay respectively.

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We should have a pinned FAQ with stuff about the Russia-Ukraine war and Xinjiang and stuff like that. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Personally I'm not that good at countering liberal comments on our posts, which seems to be happening more and more frequently with any posts relating to China. It'd be a lot easier if we could have a big pinned post with all the materials we need so we can just link to it whenever we need to.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

but I feel we ought to engage, just a little.

I agree with pretty much everything you said; I think where we differ is in how engaging just a little should be done.

We each of us has a finite amount of effort to give, and in my view one of the biggest factors in how fruitful that effort will be is who you spend that effort on.

I think that Liberals who have taken it upon themselves to troll, sealion, castigate or enlighten us are one of the worst kinds of people you can spend that effort on. The Liberal mindset has a staggering amount of inherent arrogance, and when that's paired with a determination to either vex or 'save' you, you're better off sowing seeds on concrete than trying to turn them around. They already decided they were right long ago. And they're certainly not going to give any credence to a list of sources or an FAQ, if they even bother to look at it.

I don't disagree that we have a responsibility to educate, rather I think we have an additional responsibility to be discerning about who, when, and how to reach out with that education. It'd be interesting to see how many of us that converted from liberalism were set down that path by arguing with a Marxist compared to how many of us were prompted by questions, doubts and contradictions raised from reflecting on our material conditions.