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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't know why ml is so hated

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The admins and mods of .ml are the biggest Tankies of Lemmy, they refuse to admit that China is an authoritarian dictatorship that has committed recent genocide and constantly lick Putins boot saying things like Russia was justified in invading Ukraine unprovoked

[email protected] though you'll need to view through another instance because .ml blocks this community specifically

Or [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Probably should be noted those communities are filled with the brigading efforts of like two chronically obsessed people who use alternate accounts to stir up shit or screenshot posts they often write themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some Lemmy instances are generally hostile to Marxists, who are more concentrated on Lemmy.ml.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ml and hexbear are not marxist. They are fascists cosplaying as soviet communists. Many people don't make that distinction though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

probably because that distinction is unfounded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, there's nothing saying a communist country needs to be a one party dictatorship. It would be perfectly achievable though democracy if the majority of the population actually wanted to take collective responsibility for the country and wanted people to be treated fairly. The reason communist dictatorships fail is because they are dictatorships, not because they are communist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Marx had very little to say about the governing structure of communist governments, but did actually describe socialism as a 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.

What you're taking issue with is how marxism was later applied by various political projects, but they all still fall under the umbrella term of Marxism.

Put another way: all Marxist-lenninists are Marxist but not all Marxists are Marxist-lenninists