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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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Okay, I'm sure you cooked him or whatever but god, my comrades, we gotta refuse to engage in that reddit debate-lord nonsense where you go line by cherry-picked line and dissect everything another person says. Nobody wants to read that, its obnoxious, and it actually hurts what you are doing because each side stops taking in the overall thesis of the not only what they are arguing against but what they are arguing for.
At a certain point it's just you trying to "disprove" each other rather than push forth a cohesive narrative. Once you get into the habit of this you start to really inhibit your ability to conceptualize concise and biting rhetoric which is an important skill in getting your point across in the real world.
I honestly think it's an important skill to develop, being able to defend your ideology from attacks that are based on "vibes" and answering with actually sourced information. It's mostly an exercise to myself that forces me to refresh my knowledge in some contended areas (see the part on "imperialism in central Asia" e.g.). Subjecting oneself to attacks and, also importantly, showing in alternative spaces (like Lemmy) that there's another view of history than the predominant western narrative.
Sadly, the state of affairs is such that communists, when arguing about things, have the burden of evidence because it goes against the status-quo. Collecting said evidence and dismantling the predominant narrative is a good thing IMO. I understand that the format isn't to everyone's liking, but I don't see how it's a bad thing when I'm doing so from a position of historical evidence.
Yes. You can do it without resorting to this style. And you will be better off for it in the long run.
Russian libs are the worst kind of lib but I agree with this.