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I wouldn’t consider folks from .ml to be dangerous tho - they are simply a book club that is being mean to people on internet.
Right-wingers, who don’t touch grass, on the other hand, are far more dangerous - just remember QAnon, this shit was started by some 4chan troll.
Ironically I don’t think anyone considered 4chan very dangerous until the whole QAnon shit.
The US State certainly seems to think communist organizers are dangerous.
Eh, I think there's a decent amount of intellectual overlap between authoritarian right wingers and authoritarian left wingers. They will both prioritize state control over people.
Define "authoritarian" without using variations of the word or variations of "totalitarian".
That’s something I actually like about .ml it allows me to find literature on important current topics without the capitalist mindset, that’s so hard to come by. On the other hand the blind following of concepts like Lenin’s democratic centralism and Mao’s defence of state oppression, makes it difficult to convince with, along with the silent support for capitalist autocracies like the Kremlin and Xi.
I’m currently reading the Red Book from Mao and there some parts that are needlessly dangerous that use crusaders logic to defend atrocities for a promised future.
this is exactly why i was originally drawn to browse the hexbear.net/c/news. living in the US the corporate run media maintains pretty tight control over narratives. i prefer to know as much as i can of the entire picture and decide for myself.
none of the orgs i'm in are even dem cent. it's a framework for organizing which i think fits a particular type of moment, but is not without its issues outside of those moments.
Just to spare you some sanity as I've told others -- and you're probably already well aware -- most of these tankies who have a hard-on for and simp on behalf of Eastern Authoritarian genocidal apologists have a tendency to be a part of the 50 Cent Party or some derivative troll farm. In other words, they literally get paid to post comments; meanwhile Lemmy itself has limited control over sock-puppet account duplication. Just know there are sane people on here and don't waste your time too much. Stay on message in the first comment or two and let them run their mouths if they wish, but many of them get a paycheck from dragging you into comments (if aren't actual zealots themselves). You never know. though -- it could just come down to them thinking, "Hammer & Sickle cool!" or something.
I'm all for exploring other ideologies; but that tends to stop short of ends-justify-means utopic fantasy whereby many are oppressed; when there are double-standards when geopolitically-expedient for the likes of what is occurring in Gaza, but conveniently not for what is happening in Ukraine, to Uyghurs, to Tibetan Buddhist monks, to Hong Kong democratic protesters, to Taiwanese sovereignty in blatant imperial conquest.
Thanks ❤️
Yeah it would definitely help to know who downvoted or upvoted some blatantly heinous comments.
Having now been fodder to a couple of the 50c army I’m now much less inclined towards the label of Socialism so I’m not sure for the overall motives other than Cult purity.
I’ll be looking for a mbin or piefed instance now 👋
https://rdctd.pro/defense-against-cult-control-tactics/
Sadly I fear that's part of their intention (we further cannot rule out far-right nazis masquerading as leftists in order to muddy the well).
Though I completely get your concerns. Have you looked much into Social Democracy?
I take it you haven’t seen my red rose profile picture 😉
But no not as literature, I thought I’d get the foundation of Marx but took a detour on Mao do you have any recommendations?
Oh no I'm sorry. My vision isn't what it used to be and it's tiny on my screen lol. That's funny though
Honestly, I don't have any good recommendations except to say that over the years and having kind of visited most of the points of the political spectrum I've started to settle down here. That when looking for something better that has also been realized somewhere in the world already, I keep coming back to the Nordic Model. Perfect? Maybe not. Best we've seen? By the data, I contend yes. Moreover it doesn't seem like we have to engage in this ends-justify-means pursuit of an unrealized dream like I mentioned before.
"blind following" Yeah alright, sorry for reading something, relating it to what I know, investigating its claims, find them to be well-founded and the arguments to stand up to reason, and therefore I decide to incorporate it into my worldview. I suppose a much better method would be to read falsehoods written by someone the CIA decided to fund or whoever you want.
Have you read the Red Book?
Maos quotations?
Yes
Then yes. Been a bunch of years though and the translation seemed shoddy.