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Cowbee [he/they]

@ 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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  • Lemmy.world doesn't allow any opinions from Hexbear, they defederated from them. That is more censorship, though less obvious because you don't see the comments getting removed. Even then, comments still get removed for going against the "party line" as well, usually comments critiquing the Democrats.

    What's more correct is that Hexbear is more open and up front with its bias, while instances like Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works try to pretend that they don't hold bias.

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  • OP has the opinions of the non-Marxists already by asking here, on an instance defederated from most of the Marxists. May as well ask the Marxists what they think too.

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  • The opposite is true, when you only ask people not federated with Hexbear you get equally imbalanced opinions. OP already did that, may as well ask on Hexbear as well to get the other side of the story.

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  • To be clear, your posts are largely removed not just from Hexbear but other instances for rampant misogyny and general manosphere talking points, as well as getting into constant fights with other users.

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  • Probably! There's also a century of Red Scare propaganda distorting popular opinion, doctoring of Marx's actual beliefs, and more. Such issues delayed my progress, which is why I try to do the best I can to try to meet people where they are at.

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  • It's a shorthand, it's hard to distill the nuances and complexities of a very dense and historied ideology. Getting into the nuances of property ownership would take a lot longer, because usually said conversations end up being about where the line between private, public, and personal property is drawn. Such conversations are rarely productive and miss the greater picture, and require extensive explanation of Dialectical and Historical Materialism to even get into the why of collectivizing production.

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  • They generally don't admit to it, claiming it's just about censorship is a convenient excuse.

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  • I asked because Marxists make a distinction between personal and public property, you can own things you use. Probably not owning acres of land, but housing is something you can own.

    Is there something you especially believe should be ownable by individuals that you think Marxists want to collectivize?

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  • I don't fault the origins entirely (though it is suspicious nonetheless), I fault the staying power and the overwhelming usage by right-wing westerners. Why isn't Obama referenced as Tigger, or Shinzo Abe as Eeyore?

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  • Believe me, I consider that the opposite is not true regularly. I live in a western country, I don't isolate myself from the news. However, from what I've seen, I don't have reason to distrust the Harvard Study. Even the US reached 90% following 9/11, China has managed to do it as well by focusing on things like the famous poverty eradication campaign that shaped the PRC's policies throughout the last decade.

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  • Yep, not really surprising.

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  • Sure, so why Pooh and not a Panda?

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  • When you say you don't think all property should be collectively owned, what about it specifically turns you away from that? What does that look like in your eyes? I think more than anything you sound like a Marxist-Leninist that just hasn't read much theory, because other than that sticking point you seem to be saying the same things Marxist-Leninists say.

    Just food for thought, my reading list is there if you want it or not.

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  • Depends on the degree, complaining about "forcing equity" and "wokeness" to me honestly implies danger in my opinion. Plus, the whole anticommunism being their sole focus thing really doesn't help.

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  • You can just read the article, they address your concerns:

    Although state censorship and propaganda are widespread in China, these findings highlight that citizen perceptions of governmental performance respond most to real, measurable changes in individuals’ material well-being. Satisfaction and support must be consistently reinforced. As a result, the data point to specific areas in which citizen satisfaction could decline in today’s era of slowing economic growth and continued environmental degradation.

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  • Okay, I'm going to clarify some things here. For reference, I am a Marxist, particularly a Marxist-Leninist. I used to consder myself more of an Anarchist, but reading more Marxist theory and history books generally led me towards Marxism-Leninism. As such, the explanations I am going to give in a second are from that perspective, a Marxist that at one point considered themselves to be an Anarchist.

    All Communists are, first and foremost, Socialists. Socialism is categorized by an economic system where public ownership and planning is primary and thus dominant over markets. Communism refers to a post-Socialist economic system where all property has been collectivized in a world Socialist republic, the famous "Stateless, Classless, Moneyless Society." When I reference the ideology of AES states, I reference Marxism or Communism or a specific strain of Marxism, but when I reference the economic model of an AES state, it changes.

    For example, the PRC is Marxist-Leninist, but practices "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," which appears as a form of a "Socialist Market Economy." This economic model looks different from, say, Cuba, even though both are guided by Marxism-Leninism and working towards Communism.

    There are other forms of Socialism, however in the grand historical and theoretical context the overwhelming majority fall into the broad categories of Marxism and Anarchism.

    Does this all make sense so far? If you're interested, I wrote an introductory Marxist reading list, the first section in particular is short and very helpful for just being familiar with general terminology and goals.

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  • Generally yes, though she doesn't seem to be one of the endlessly bad-faith types, just a bit stuck with Red Scare notions.

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