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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.
i'm not sure there's any metric by which the soviet union could be called a success but go off king
I wrote my thesis about how we can learn from Cuba's green farming movements (because they were essentially locked out of capitalism) and was criticized for it.
Western liberals who think they are entirely objective and free of bias really struggle to get to grips with how much of their world view is just patronizing racist chauvinism.
Also I'm not even sure why liberals are permitted on lemmy. Send them and their disgusting violent ideology back to corporate media.
They don't have any problems with US corporate media's ideology. They're just mad reddit took away their app treats.
If you are offended by this, you might be incapable of self-reflection
Imagine getting offended by this instead of just being anti-colonialist
Why do white crackers have to be so set in their ways?
Simply put: maintaining the status quo is prerequisite to their comfortable living.
I remember watching a documentary about North Korea and one of the guides was talking about how people in NK and Asia more broadly don't necessarily want to live under the same liberal-democratic capitalist system that the west tries to impress on them.
How arrogant are we to act like we have it all figured out and that countries outside of Europe and North America are backwards shitholes?
oh I wonder why this is near the top of the active feed even though there's only 6 comments
clicks the Federation button to see the post on its home page
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.
Leftism is when you vote for the democrats unquestioningly with out applying any sort of pressure or having primaries.
A recent question I've been asking my democrat friends in real life, now that trump is hiring 20k more ICE gestapo, lets say Democrats win the midterms and then win the next presidency; do you think they will fire them all? Do you think they're going to "look soft on crime" and "defund the police" when they refused to last time during massive nation wide protest? The answer is pretty obviously no. The DHS and the USA-PATRIOT act are not even on the table.
i feel democrat equivalent parties all over the world are like this now. the pretense is literally the only thing left in them, and its paper thin at this point.
"real" socdems would at least fucking try somewhat.
to most modern "leftists" olof palme would be a tankie.
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.
I don't know why they even left Reddit. Were they really that mad about app development?
I am not only on .world (actually started out there and moved over here), but yeah, for me that was the last straw. That official app is just an affront.
Idk how anyone can defend how we (the US) does shit. Especially after this year. If you weren't already privy to how monstrous we can be now you are, and now we pulled any good shit we might have done, too.
in first world nations we are insidiously brainwashed to believe that there WERE NO SUCCESSES among Communist movements.
awareness of those successes must be promoted.
start with "hey this really successful thing happened" AND THEN reveal "btw that was communism"
I just had to explain this to someone the other day lol. Figure ur gonna get lots of hate from libs about this post so wanted to just come in and say hi. 你是很好老师同志。Your posts in response are nicely done. I hope people take the time to read them.
May I recommend a book: The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins. Humanized Communism in a way that profoundly changed my thinking.
