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Turns out that the definition of people in those two prompts didn’t change, it’s just different. In 2020 they meant people=me, now it’s people=them
They’ve know all along that they were facsist
Well, only kinda. They don't actually know what the word "fascist" means.
They also don't understand what liberal means, which means individual freedom, freedom of speech, private ownership and trial by jury, and basically the opposite of marxism or communism
Apart from private ownership how are the rest antithetical to Marxism or communism?
This is just nonsense. Did an AI write it for you?
The USSR, and all the weird parallels to it that your AI write up has included, was not communism.
Maybe you shouldn't mock people's understanding of things when you yourself clearly don't understand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism
Wikipedia is based on actual sources that you can read for yourself at the bottom of the page. It's also written by actual people and not a text generator that can't understand what it is writing and has no idea whether it's accurate or not because it's not alive.
That's a whole lot of bullshit to tell me you've never read Marx.
It's not marxist, but it describes leninism to a T. And most tankies tend to be ML, not marxist.
That is correct but he didn't mention Lenin at all, and tried to conflate Lenin with both Marx and Communism as a whole. Personally I blame Lenin for the failure of the executive branch to properly set up the soviets as democratically elected councils, rather than a supreme dictator. I also blame Lenin for Stalin.
Leninists do that already by calling themselves "Marxist-leninists." And Lenin himself conflated his personal ideology with communism as a whole when he killed all the communists who weren't on board with him.
Marx shouldn't even be a taboo subject, but he is, purely because of how Lenin commandeered and corrupted the entire evolution of the ideas Marx first laid out. Plenty of countries had communist parties before the bolshevik revolution; afterwards, the entire west looked and said "those people are fucking crazy, I don't want them doing that here."
I'd love to be able to sit down and have an intellectual discussion on the virtues of Marx's theories, but if I bring it up anywhere I'll get one of two reactions: either I'll be labeled as a communist, get put on a watch list, and get chased out of town, or I'll wind up listening to a tankie rant for hours about how I'm not radical enough and that if I don't support the bolsheviks that I must be a fascist.
There's no fucking middle-ground, no room for nuance, and Marxism itself is barely more than a historical artifact. An interest piece on an ideal that never came to be, and now is far more widely known for being something else which didn't come until decades later.
Far better to just talk about Merleau-Ponty. At least then anyone who's heard of him is at least somewhat educated...
I checked out at the obviously-AI copy-paste job with the numbered lists and shit.
I'm not opposed to communism as an idea, but it's as realistic as the star trek universe it lives in right now. We need to push the needle left from "putting people in camps" way before we try to push the needle towards collective ownership.
Of course it's AI (it should be obvious).. why would i spend time and effort trying to explain on a heavily marxist internet forum?
if you care about communicating ideas, put effort into trying, win or lose you're actively learning human communication skills.
If you don't care, well you get ignored or blocked and slowly shut out of more and more opportunity to either share your ideas or learn how to change your ideas based on more things you learn along the way.
If I wanted to read what an AI had to say, I would ask a fucking AI.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre
I wasn't going to, I was still engaging in misplaced good faith that you give a fuck about being here, but I can see you obviously don't.
When you grow up, maybe try again to dip your toes in this whole "sharing a world with other people's perspectives and ideas" thing and see if you can learn something. The alternative is kinda bad so make good choices kiddo.
You waste the oxygen you metabolize. Consider stopping.
Maybe try understanding the thing yourself first. It's actually pretty interesting, and you might actually learn some things.
ML right now
I like how you provided an educated and accurate take, and everyone downvotes you because they don't want to say they agree with the "communist view."
I will say, however, that it's not exactly Marxism, but rather Leninism (often called Marxist-Leninism) that you describe.
So people do somewhat have a point, if somewhat pedantic and merely semantic.
Of that list, marxism only opposes private property. It doesn't oppose the rest of that list, it's merely not immediately concerned with them.
I wish our biggest problem with the illiterate 30% of the country is that they don't get the terms right.
In 2015, it was people=them during the Jade Helm Scare. Abbott was so convinced in the Russian propaganda that he sent the national guard to watch a military exercise. He was convinced that Obama had shuddered several walmarts, emptied them, and was going to use the army to imprison them in said Walmarts. The russians even came up with blueprints for the Walmart prisons.