Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.
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US liberals are so upset when they hear anything to the left of AOC.
US Liberals are upset when they see anyone further left than Ronald Reagan
Ah yes. Telling Ukraine that they should "stop fighting so people stop dieing" is being left of AOC and not Russian propaganda. We at ml are just peace absolutists, it's just a coincidence that our peace absolutism somehow involves just giving everything to Russia.
I'm curious how you envision Ukraine winning. From where I'm standing, I cannot see any remotely realistic pathway for them to regain any significant amount of territory. There may have been (probably was) a time when more/different weapons would have made a real difference, but at this point it's a matter of manpower. Do you think anyone is going to send troops?
Believe it or not, I don't think Russia is well-run, or a good place for workers. I don't like their foreign policy either. However, I also don't think it's useful or accurate to reduce them to "Putin bad". Of course he's bad, but that doesn't explain major Russian foreign policy anymore than "Trump bad" explains major US foreign policy. Not saying that nuance is an excuse, but you can't make any real analysis without it.
As their neighbour, I totally agree. It's not Putin bad. It's everyone from fucking Russia. There's nothing that came from Russia and wasn't made into an abomination.
(* Except Russian people who left Russia because they could see how god damn awful that place and everyone in it is; Pretending otherwise is literally dismissing their culture).
It won't matter in the end. Their shitty Colombus Epoch is coming to an end
What in the universe are you envisioning?
Pretending Russia, China and NK are flawless just because they're (former) communist countries isn't left of AOC, it's just plain idioicy and propaganda.
You're making things up to be mad about. Nobody pretends that those countries are flawless. You just can't seem to handle the idea that none of those countries are 1/10 the threat to the world that the US is.
I've repeatedly seen posts on lemmy.ml defending Russia and NK, both brutal dictatorships that tread on human rights with feet, so no. I am most certainly not making stuff up
Defending them isn't the same as saying they are flawless. What is the point of criticizing North Korea? Especially from a country like the US who does far more harm to the world than either NK or Russia.
Just because the US is a pile of crap doesn't make it remotely acceptable to defend brutal dictatorships that will arrest you for simply being gay. Or throw you out of a window if you complain about their dear leader too much.
When I say "defend" I don't mean a blanket defense. There are good criticisms to make, some of which you've highlighted. Unfortunately, such criticisms are too often used as excuses to write off those countries entirely, and to justify any and all attacks on them. For example, I often hear it said that I shouldn't defend Palestinians, because they are anti gay. This is meant to distract us from the even greater evil occurring. You can do this with literally any country, which would mean that it isn't "remotely acceptable to defend" any of them.
Except I've literally seen several of those blanket defenses on ml, as well as posts claiming that these countries aren't even dictatorships, as well as posts justifying and defending Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and placing the blame for the continuing war on Ukraine for not surrendering. All of which I've seen posted, and upvoted uncritically on ml
Agree with them or not, there are justifications and defenses for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Again, you don't have to like those reasons but you should understand what they are, and why people might honestly use them. And no, .ml isn't immune to circlejerking anymore than .world is, but there is genuine discussion there if you care to engage in good faith with radically different points of view.
Pretending that Marxist-Leninists have Leftist beliefs is cute. That workers have no self-determination and have to tow the party line under threat of violence is the dead giveaway
What not reading and uncritically swallowing western propaganda does to a MF
Here's one of the bootlickers now. Bro, you're a right winger obsessed with collectivization. Quit stinking up the revolution with your nonsense.
Quit stinking up the revolution with your CIA indoctrinated understanding of "authoritarianism" and your non materialist way of understanding history. To you, European social-democracy isn't authoritarian because you happen not to live in the lands affected by neocolonialism.
Meanwhile you swallow campist doctrine. Ok buddy
Projecting much?
Related to your post: I've seen people from Lemmy.ml defend imperialist behaviour from Russia and China. Surely the left is supposed to oppose imperialism - whether it's from the US, Europe, Russia, China, or anywhere else.
The communist party is run by the working classes and derives its power from popular support. The people oppressed by communist parties were overwhelmingly fascists, landlords, and capitalists.
Out right lies. The communist parties (the ones that have existed, not the the theoretical ones) derive their power from threat of violence against workers. They're a non-hereditary nobility that oppress workers (except North Korea which is now a hereditary monarchy).
Incorrect, on all counts. Communist parties derive their power from popular support from the working classes, as they themselves are working class. State violence is used against fascists, sabateurs, capitalists, and landlords. If they truly were a nobility concerned only with oppressing workers, then you have to prove why there was such dramatic improvements in social welfare, poverty eradication, key life metrics, studied Marxism and taught it in universities, and more. Certainly these would have been of no importance to a new ruling class?
You're dramatically incorrect here.
Communists are rich people who are privileged enough to not work and spend all day larping. They dont know working class people they've never met any.
I'm a communist and that's false for me and every communist I know IRL that I work with, and is also false on an international scale. Communist parties are working class parties.
Communists love to wear working class struggle as a disguise. They aren't working class and once they get power they use and abuse them just like every other rich cunt.
This is nonsense. Communists seek collectivization of production and distribution to satisfy the needs of all, and when communists take power the first things they do is implement measures like land reform, literacy campaigns, and expropriate property from landlords and capitalists to better serve the interests of the people.
First thing they do is strip rights away from people. Second thing they do is start erasing history. Third is increasing police forces to crack down on any dissent.
Communists serve the communist party not the people.
Again, untrue. In Russia, for example, life expectancies doubled, literacy rates went from 20-30% to full literacy, working hours dropped while real wages rose, healthcare and education were free and high quality, the economy was democratized and the country went from a feudal backward to space in less than a century, beating the Nazis along the way.
They dramatically expand rights, teach history, and cracked down on the fascists, capitalists, and landlords.
Ah yes russia what a great example
Yep, and we can use China, Vietnam, Cuba, etc as well.
Ah yes, those are all countries known for respecting freedom and human rights. Those examples like russia completely prove my point.
To the contrary, they prove mine, despite your fantasies.
Thats funny. Not even people from those countries agree with you.
They do, actually.
I asked all 2 billion of them and they said you're wrong.
No you didn't, and no they didn't.
That problem is that not all communists were made equal. I've heard plenty of communists talk that I can respect but MLs aren't the ones. Bolsheviks always managed to get their needs especially met and before anyone elses needs.
Marxism-Leninism is the only branch of communism that has actually successfully implemented socialism. I'm not sure what communists you spoke with that you can respect if you don't respect any that have actually succeeded. The point about MLs ensuring their needs are met before anyone elses is just nonsense considering everywhere socialism has been implemented by MLs has come with dramatic improvements in the lives of the working classes.
Some communists, not all communists.
Nah pretty safe to say all.
Not every communist is Marxist-Leninist/Bolshevik. Some communists support the working class for example.
Most of my friends are some flavor of Anarchist or Socialist. Of the two outright Commies that I've known (who described themselves as such) one was a man of the people and the other was a lazy spoiled phony who's communism expressed itself mainly as sharing memes on facebook.