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The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses—at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures by social media companies has found.

The onslaught of attacks – often of a vile and deeply personal nature – is part of a well-organized, increasingly brazen Chinese government intimidation campaign targeting people in the United States, documents show.

The US State Department says the tactics are part of a broader multi-billion-dollar effort to shape the world’s information environment and silence critics of Beijing that has expanded under President Xi Jinping. On Wednesday, President Biden is due to meet Xi at a summit in San Francisco.

Victims face a barrage of tens of thousands of social media posts that call them traitors, dogs, and racist and homophobic slurs. They say it’s all part of an effort to drive them into a state of constant fear and paranoia.

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[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Basically they are about (specially Blackshirts and Reds) how “libertarian” socialist experiments all failed, and were ultimately destroyed by national and international bourgeoisie.

I think Critique of the Gotha Program by Marx is much better than the Communist Manifesto, as it’s also a critique of the libertarian socialist Germans.

Like, if you want to get very sad, read about the politicides in Indonesia, Korea, South America etc. Communists (and I include anarchists, libertarians socialists, democratic socialists etc. here) have to organize in strong movements to survive.

All communist experiments that lasted more than 1 years were either MLs or Maoists.

We really should look at this and try to learn from it. It’s a fact, it’s just something that has happened.

We have to understand why democratic socialism is vulnerable to being exterminated, and why ML and Maoism aren’t.

[-] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago

So you're saying I should be a fascist 🤔😅

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Man if that’s what you got from what I said, idk what to tell you.

I sure hope no one becomes a fascist after materially studying and analysing history. And if they have any shred of empathy as well of course.

[-] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

Lemme just laugh with you

[-] jackalope@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago
[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nobody said he was… that is not the point.

Would you be really shocked if “tankies” agreed the state sucks? They are… gasp… communists after all no? And communism is stateless, moneyless and classless, right?

Like even “tankies” are anti-statists… they just disagree with people like you that we can reach communism without authoritarian revolution, creating a dictatorship of the proletariat, and first transitioning to socialism. And that doesn’t mean they agree the revolution and the proletariat dictatorship will be like in the USSR, Cuba, China etc.

Marxists-Leninists and Maoists understand socialism will look different everywhere it comes, and will adapt to the culture and expectations of the working class of those places… only anti-communist leftists make the mistake of thinking “tankies” idolise the USSR or China. That what they want is an exact repeat of the Bolshevik Revolution…

[-] jackalope@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago

You very clearly didn't watch the video. Your interpretation of the critique of the Gotha program is off by a mile.

[-] Inmate@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Posting a lone YouTube video is indicative of a deep and fruitful intellectual bedrock. Lookout: this guy's got answers 🤣!

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I didn’t say anything about what the critique was…. I did make a typo saying libertarian socialist German communes. But I tried writing libertarian socialist German communists, which doesn’t make sense either, but the meaning was libertarian socialist Germans, or libertarian German communists.

In any case, I never said it was the main point of the text either…..

[-] jackalope@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I recommend you actually watch the video.

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