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can't wait to see the hexbear response to this one
Hexbear: [image of a pig pooping on its own balls]
Truly, walking in the shoes of Marx and Engels. Such eloquence.
You don't have to wait you can just go look at them whenever you want.
https://hexbear.net/post/1070892
They won't be showing up here, this is a lemmy.world community and they are defederated afaik.
My God, they're just fanscreeching there and trying to make themselves interesting in the cringiest way about it. As always, tbh
It's easy to make a list of all communists countries that turned fascists and massacred people. You don't do that with capitalists because there are simply too many, everywhere, in about all of history.
It's almost like the main problem with both authoritarian communism and authoritarian capitalism might be the authoritarianism.
It would be 100% with capitalist as well.
As DarthBueller@lemmy.world less succinctly put it. Capitalism is barely a few hundred years old. It's barely existed a fraction of human history. It's barely older than many of the original socialist ideals. Let alone all of history. Markets and currency predate capitalism and socialism by millennia. And neither has claim to them. Despite both making use of them.
That said fuck leninists. Actual communists are pretty chill though. But leninists and capitalists are a threat to everyone. Including themselves.
Just as a true socialist country has never existed, a true capitalist country has never existed. Economies are always mixed.
Ssshhhjttt, don't be reasonable, you're gonna make them cry
So capitalism has existed since "about all of history"? About as dumb a take as folks insisting that the Israel/Palestine conflict has been going on for thousands of years.
I like how all the pictures are wojacks or hand drawns and Khrushchev is just his character from Oversimplified
You didn't mention the Prague Spring or the whole of the assassination attempts on Tito or the East German uprising in 1953.
I mean, there is only so much space... I think the point stands.
NNNOOOO!!! HOW DARE YOU UN-WHITEWASH LENIN!!!! NOOOO!!! Tankies tried SO HARD to make Makhno disappear like Trotsky! You LIBERAL AMERICANS!!! REEEEEE!!!
Yeah quite a large portion of lemmings are politically insane. It's either 'burn the rich, overthrow the government' or 'Maybe the windmill party has a valid point'
Like why can't people just be chill and get along
Hey now, don’t go lumping “eat the rich” in with these crazies. I can hate tankies and hate our growing wealth inequalities
Well, the people "being chill and getting along" (i.e. just keeping the status quo going) is nowadays supporting a genocide,so...
Like why can’t people just be chill and get along
I think the hurtling toward climate crises has a lot of people desperate for governments to actually do something to help assuage it, not make it worse.
Meanwhile, OP: 🍿
But the tankies now call themselves as "right wing christian, conservative, nationalists", see orban, trump, putin, etc...
There are still plenty of members of the Leninist tankie cult left - look at the positions of most Communist Parties in Europe. To make things worse, I think most of them don't even realize that the Soviet Union is gone and that China became a cyberpunkish corporatocracy that puts the worst western country to shame.
If tankies when they're gonna be real surpises when the qouta for poets was met ages ago and it's time to go to the coal mines.