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submitted 5 days ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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If your first instinct as a westerner is to criticize and lecture 3rd world communist movements, instead of learning from their successes, then you have internalized the patronizing arrogance of the colonial system you claim to oppose.

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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 50 points 4 days ago

clueless oh I wonder why this is near the top of the active feed even though there's only 6 comments

clicks the Federation button to see the post on its home page

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[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 42 points 4 days ago

I'm so glad I don't let lemmy.nazi federate to my server lol

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i've been blocking (and getting banned from) plenty of .world politics and "history" comms.

its really that terrible. red scare propaganda and anticommunism dressed up as "leftism".

i had someone imply to me they admire marx engels and lenin and condemn socialist "authoritarianism" in the very same post recently.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 days ago

The current McCarthyite tactic is to use "tankie" and "authoritarian" as the code-words for anyone who dares to oppose US / NATO hegemony and align themselves with the anti-colonial projects. Only the US-aligned countries are allowed to be "authentic marxists", and everyone else is labeled a tankie.

These people have no concept that everyone from Paul Robeson to even MLK was called a "dirty commie", or that the US is drone bombing like 8 countries in the middle east and north africa as we speak.

[-] Staines@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago
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