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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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  • Hexbear.net is anti-sectarian, so it has AnComms and Marxist-Leninists alike, with no infighting allowed. It probably has the largest number by quantity.

    dbzer0 has many AnComms, though it's explicitly a Piracy instance.

    Lemmy.ml has Anarchist communities as well as the Solarpunk instance, but neither have the numbers of the other 2 instances listed.

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  • To be fair, we are not the ones making those decisions, the Bourgeoisie is.

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  • Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml are explicitly Marxist aligned. Lemmy.ml's admins are Marxists, but for some reason insist that it isn't a Marxist instance. Lemmy.world defederated from both Grad and Hexbear, because the Lemmy.world mods and admins are anti-Marxist.

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  • Lemmy.world is defederated from the largest Marxist aligned instances.

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  • So you are advocating for random terrorism. Please read theory.

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  • Actually I find that it allows more range of Socialism strains to be discussed. A lot of Marxists tend to look rather poorly at any mixed Socialism blends as either heretical or as liminal states with Communism as a complete end goal instead of being legitimate in their own right.

    The PRC is an example of a Socialist Market Economy, it isn't fully socialized. What Marxists take issue with is Dictatorships of the Bourgeoisie vs Dictatorships of the Proletariat.

    Marx may have coined the term

    Marx did not coin the term. Marx was simply the most relevant and influential Socialist, and history has proven his ideas to be correct.

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  • The soviet union and the CCP today famously committed a number of genocides, killed dissenters, and are one party states. You seem to think I mean liberal democracy when I say democracy. I mean democracy.

    Having a one party state is not anti-democratic. What matters is what you can vote on, which the Soviet system allowed for moreso than liberal democracy.

    Soviet Democracy by Priestland seems to disagree with you on how democratic the worplaces were. The power of the unions was greatly dialed back very quickly, with managers being reintroduced and the economy becoming more hierarchical as time went on.

    Again, hierarchy and managers are not against Marxism, nor is direct worker self management Marxism.

    Socialism being when the workers own the means of production is kinda essential, be it directly or indirectly. This is the basis on which I state that tankies are not socialists. I'm guessing you think that the workers indirectly own the means in the soviet union, or that the direct democracy you seem to think existed there for any meaningful amount of time counted (it did count, but again, only briefly).

    I highly recommend reading Why do Marxists fail to bring about the "Worker's Paradise?", it's an excellent article on economic democracy with respect to Historical Materialism.

    Anything you've said about china is just flat out wrong. The soviet union is certainly complicated, and much could be debated there, especially since the power of the unions fluctuated with time, but workers have literally zero power under the ccp.

    I literally linked you a wikipedia article, I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. There's workplace democracy in China, and public property is entitely state planned. I wish you'd throw me a bone here we can work with, you just denied everything outright.

    But we clearly disagree on reality, no further debate is necessary. Have a nice day I guess.

    I really implore you to have an open mind, and again, read Marx regarding Historical and Dialectical Materialism. Elementary Principles of Philosophy is my personal favorite overview of the concepts.

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  • Are you advocating for random terrorism? That's adventurism, which sets revolutionary movements back.

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  • Hex is very self-sufficient and has healthy overlap with grad, so not being entangled with .world isn't a bad thing for HB. It isn't dying out anytime soon

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  • No worries! That happened a while ago, I voted to keep federated.

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  • Soviets were "units." Not the same as unions, they were horizontal units that elected delegates from among themselves to participate in soviets of soviets vertically. I have a diagram linked in my other comment.

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  • It isn't from within, those are revolutionary orgs.

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  • Both Unruffled and dbzer0 are admins, I think both got banned but the instance remained federated because the problem wasn't with the users.

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  • That's a fair point.

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  • I'm not going to spend too much time debating a tankie, but I think most of these regimes kinda by definition are not socialist given how little power the workers had.

    Using the USSR as an example, the workers had far more power and democratic participation in the economy. They couldn't have had much more, unfortunately, because democratic participation requires planning, and planning requires development. The USSR was underdeveloped, so it could not have been more democratized than it was.

    When unions are suppressed and the military and the dictatorship are essentially the same thing, how could they be socialist?

    They had a publicly owned and planned economy, drastically reduced wealth disparity, centralized production, and had universal free healthcare and education.

    Socialism requires that workers own their workplaces, that they run them.

    Incorrect. You are referring to cooperatives, which is not the same as Marxism. Engels actually wrote against such a system in Anti-Duhring, as cooperatives without central planning and ownership begets accumulation and competition, serving as a breeding ground for Capitalism. Cooperatives are not Marxist, because it transforms the proletarians into petite bourgeoisie.

    This was not the case in the soviet union nor is it the case in china today, where businesses are either organized by the state (like in the soviet union) or mixed (CCP).

    You're describing Marxism and saying it isn't Socialist, I am not sure what your point is. State planning is Marxist.

    The state organizing businesses or whatever you want to call them would be fine if the people owned the state, but again these were/are dictatorships.

    They were and are not dictatorships, from Soviet Democracy to whole-process people's democracy, there are democratic structures in place. It isn't liberal democracy, but it is democratic.

    The people don't control anything at all in your so called marxist states, and so therefore they are not marxist.

    Oh, but they did. You can read the linked sources.

    Centralization is not something that I'm opposed to, but what does it matter how decentralized or centralized something is if it's not also democratically owned?

    They were and are, though, this is a point you just assert over and over again without anything backing it up.

    I would probably call myself a marxist if tankies hadn't so thoroughly stained the term.

    I encourage you to read Marx. I understand that you likely won't agree with what I am saying in this comment, but if you want reading recommendations I can give suggestions. In particular, I think you should study Historical and Dialectical Materialism, a thorough understanding of each helps place AES countries and their successes and failures into context.

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  • The Socialist instances regularly advocate that Leftists join an org like PSL or FRSO.

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  • MLs don't downplay the participation of Anarchists in the Russian Revolution, at least not from what I have seen.

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  • You're using them synonymously, you denied the Marxist states as "not Socialist," and have claimed the Marxists on Hexbear are "tankies." Can you meaningfully explain the difference between Marxism and "tankies?" Engels himself even wrote On Authority because Anarchists constantly accused him and Marx of being authoritarian, it isn't a new concept, because Marx advocated for centralization of the Means of Production Anarchists stood firmly opposed.

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  • Thought it was Unruffled who got banned, did dbzer0 also get banned?