Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy? (feddit.uk)

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Even from people that never lived in a communist state

edit: im 17 and i hate communism

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[-] anarchost@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

Even if you adopt hardline Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as an ideology, the modern state of China has applied so much pro-capitalist revisionism to it that it's a shell of its former self. Today, Maoist parties are suppressed in China.

I'm not a Maoist by a long shot, but I can at least appreciate the fact that the ones shouting "revisionism!" the most are the ones who have most bastardized their own texts.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago

it’s a shell of its former self.

And from my reading, its former self was little more than a dictatorship with 'communist trappings,' anyway. Mao was a monster, and nobody to be emulated from what I've learned.

[-] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

He killed more people than almost anyone else in history. Maybe the most.

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