this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2024
474 points (97.2% liked)

World News

32365 readers
330 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 95 points 8 months ago (82 children)

Do liberals have a theory for why fascism is sprouting up around the world?
Because Marxists are like seen-this-one https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Fascism

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 18 points 8 months ago (79 children)

It's tough to be critical of "liberalism" when everyone has a different idea of what it means. It might help to specify "economic liberalism".

Along with it's deep flaws, Liberalism is also associated with things like the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, LGBT+ rights, etc. Conservatives also muddy the waters by blaming these things for economic hardship.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 42 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Liberalism is also associated with things like the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, LGBT+ rights

Communists had to pry these concessions from liberalism with organized violence, don't pretend like liberalism did these things.

[–] juicy 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honest question: when did communists use organized violence to abolish slavery? To win LGBT+ rights?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 30 points 8 months ago

A lot of radical abolitionists were communists

The lgbt liberation movement would wave the flag of the legitimate vietnamese government during the US invasion. Marsha Johnson, Leslie fienberg, communists.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (76 replies)
load more comments (78 replies)