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Western Socialists (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Socialism is when no criticize glorious leader

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Socialists are actually pretty good at criticizing AES states, because we bother to study what the actual issues are and not just fall back on tired inaccurate stereotypes.

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

Materialists will always have a better grip on reality than idealists.

The reason the libs are consistently so out of touch is that the core feature of their worldview is a complete rejection of causal reality. By subjugating the importance of material conditions to ideology, they leave space for whomever to insert whatever narrative, probably bourgeois.

We launder better criticisms of AES precisely because we want to build socialism, seek to learn from its past failures, and use those lessons to build a stronger socialism. Materialist thinking is scientific, and as such, iteratively gravitates in the direction of truth. Idealist thinking is magical and is easily taken down many paths leading away from truth.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago

"Criticism" is when one invades socialist countries, coups democratically elected governments, installs fascist juntas, cheerleads starvation sanctions, massacres union leaders and create a century-spanning campaign of atrocity fabrications that infests countless academic institutions to this day

Just regular old "criticism" yessiree

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'd criticize them if any of them ever did a single thing wrong hentai-free

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

well, Stalin stopped at Berlin