Exactly! If you're going to write essays disagreeing with a thing, you gotta read (and understand) the thing you're disagreeing with!

You're claiming the following is not sectarian:

This was how Marx and Engels conceived of their “stateless” end goal — a massive bureaucracy that would govern every cog in every machine all across the communist world. A government by any reasonable definition and therefor completely and absolutely incompatible with anarchy.

How this new “administration of things” government would manage to be uniquely liberatory is anyone’s guess, as neither Marx nor Engels chose to elaborate in much detail on what they presented as their final solution to oppressive power relations beyond what I’ve described in this essay. As usual, the Marxist inability to grapple with oppressive hierarchical constructs that reach beyond the narrow boss/worker relationship shows that they’re not even on the same playing field as anarchists, who refuse to simply patch up the leaks in the system with used chewing gum and call it a day.

This absurd concept of an end-goal naturally led future Marxists like Lenin and Stalin to commit all manner of atrocities in the name of progressing to the mythic final stage of Marxism whereupon the bureaucrats somehow create world peace by governing the things people use and need to survive, rather than by governing the people themselves.

If it doesn’t make sense to you, you’re a lot more astute than the learned Marxist historians who try to affix themselves to anarchist discourse. They’ve fully embraced and internalized this supposed end goal and decided it’s not only a logical train of thought, but is the ideal anarchists ought to also strive for.

The scissor enemies are assholes. I hate those jerks

I found this page on their website, it's real.

Which leads me to an important question: who the fuck are these assholes?

I've looked at their "Experts" page, I don't recognize anyone, I've looked at their "About" page, it's surprisingly low on info. Oh, their building in DC is "an iconic building that faces the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and that symbolizes our nation’s commitment to peace." Ok, but like, why is that on your "About" page, you fucking weirdos?!

So I'm at a loss. I'm sure (absolutely positive) there's info to be found here about this deeply shitty organization, but I think I'd have to spend hours and hours looking for weird connections, because they seem oddly reticent to tell casual visitors to their website anything about anything. And that weirds me the hell out. Who are these fucks?! Who is reading these (deeply shitty) articles they're writing?! Who funds them?! Why don't they have any board members listed where I can find them?!

This is deeply shitty. If you're right that >80% of people on Lemmy are men (I'm not sure I buy that), then it's even worse to assume everyone is a man. What you're doing is chasing off the already extremely outnumbered non-men. If you want this place to be welcoming to people who aren't men, then you need to change your behavior.

I've suspected for awhile that "it was unmoderated" is kind of a catchall for when reddit wants to ban a sub but doesn't have a real reason. Here's some more evidence to toss on that pile, I guess. Sucks that they took down this very helpful resource, fucking reddit

You can block them [hexbears], but there are tons of them that have lemmy.world accounts- and post regularly in the political communities.

You’ll know them when you see them.

It's becoming more common. We're getting extremely close to a place where trans people are predators by definition to these people. It's really scary

I don't think it's that wild. In middle school I was taught that Malcolm X was evil and making things worse for black people because he wasn't peaceful and civil like MLK. That's total and complete bullshit, as I've come to learn, but that's the amerikkkan education system for you

I blocked c/196, because I absolutely don't trust myself not to see some anticommunist bullshit and go in guns blazing. They have "fuck tankies" in their comm banner, which I take as a sign that it's very much not a space for me, so you know what? Fine. I don't have to be there. The rest of blahaj.zone seems pretty cool, I like that it's an explicitly queer instance, but c/196 seems like a bad idea and I just don't want to deal with it.

I'd urge you to consider the fact that we are explicitly, radically pro-trans. Our mod team is over half trans people and our userbase heavily skews that direction as well. I myself am trans. And I'm a communist, partially because of the experiences I've had as a trans person living under neoliberalism. I didn't start out as a communist, I slowly drifted that way as a result of learning, specifically learning more history. I'll recommend the podcast Blowback here, I think all 3 seasons are really good, well-researched, informative, and entertaining. They give a lot of context to various US actions abroad and it's a very approachable podcast. Season 4 is coming out soon and I can't wait!

Also, check out Cuba's family code if you want an example of a communist country being extremely socially progressive. It's cool and good!