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@ Cowbee @lemmy.ml

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Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us

He/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much

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  • Their point isn't that Lemmy.ml is a Nazi bar, but that leftists should behave like the so-called "Nazis" at Lemmy.ml. We are communists, not Nazis, and are diametrically opposed to fascism.

    As for why not Lemmy.world, it comes with the majority of Marxists pre-censored for you, which for me is bad.

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  • Mao is correct in saying that communists need to learn from the masses. He's talking about the Mass Line, an organizational tool to help keep the communist party linked with the masses and avoid tailism or commandism. However, that doesn't mean liberalism is correct, because there are more liberals. Mao also wrote Combat Liberalism, in which he talks about the necessity of ideological struggle within the party, and proper agitation among the masses to lead them to correct theory and practice, as is the utility of the vanguard.

    In your quoted text, Mao is fighting those members of the communist party that shirked their duties and looked at themselves as above the masses, a small but relevant issue within the CPC at the time. He isn't saying to abandon Marxism or teaching about Marxism in favor of whatever is most popular.

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  • Considering the sh.itjust.works user that made that thread in the first place is an incredibly toxic person that runs an anti-communist drama community, is a Zionist, etc, something tells me that the people claiming it's toxic are ones that had strong political disagreements to begin with.

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  • Hexbear takes transphobia and sexism far more seriously than most other instances, you're acting like sexism and transphobia is a prominent issue on Hexbear. Hexbear can be quick to dogpile, but that's true here on this very thread as well from Lemmy.worlders (or at least attempts). I'm indeed identifying the core issue percieved with Hexbear as the leftism itself, the strict adherance to Marxism and anarchism.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Yes, I trust official documentation historians use these days after the opening of the soviet archives over the personal account of a known liar, conspiracy theorizing Nazi whose own wife said he was lying.

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  • That's true of all groups, though, hsving a relatively cohesive range of acceptable opinions. What sets Hex apart is the leftism.

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  • I can't say I agree with there being anything particularly out of the norm with Hexbear beyond their leftism, so when people describe them as "almost completely unhinged" in particular, that sets off red flags.

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  • 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.

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  • Lenin wasn't trying to erase that transition to communism is gradual, but instead correctly identified that the beginning of that transition is revolution, which Marxists at the time had erased from Marx. Dialectical materialism posits that there are revolutionary leaps after quantitative buildups, the transition to socialism is the beginning of the next long gradual process of achieving communism. He did not "force it under authoritarian boot heel," but instead was the leader of the bolsheviks, a mass party chosen by the working claases.

    Contrary to your position, Marxism-Leninism has successfully established socialism in many countries, and is so widely adopted by leftists partially because of its practical success. It's the western leftists that endlessly move goalposts to invalidate socialism outside the west that results in perpetuation of bourgeois narratives surrounding socialism as it exists in real life.

    Honestly, your appraisal of Lenin and Marx makes it come off as though you haven't actually read either. Have you?

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  • Voting for a genocidal imperialist warmonger isn't leftist, so it makes sense that leftists oppose that. I'm not gaslighting, you're kinda proving my point, it's the leftism that's the issue.

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  • Not sure being proud of having no coherent points is a smart move, but you do you.

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  • Not sure being proud of having no coherent points is a smart move, but you do you.

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  • Keep inventing more strawmen to fight.

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  • Keep inventing more strawmen to fight.

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  • No alts, your opinions are just unpopular, same with your wierd sexual harassment.

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  • No alts, your opinions are just unpopular, same with your wierd sexual harassment.