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• sangeteria@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is your most recent “communism bad” post (I’m not going to go through your entire post history). Genuinely not a single reply to your post in the vein you described before. The stance you describe is so exceedingly uncommon on this platform that it cannot be found in any comment on this post of yours from a week ago.

  Most of the rebuttals are “capitalism kills more” and “black book of communism (and related sources) bad” and “a lot of those are dead nazis and dead nazi fighters,” where implicit in all these claims is that places like the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. are socialist and striving for communism. This is in fact the exact opposite of your strawman.

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  • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Your position is that it’s not a common rebuttal? My post about the Berlin wall has plenty as do many of my other posts lmao.

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    • sangeteria@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The Berlin wall post does prove your point, fair enough, I’ll concede that.

      Could not find the Pol Pot post but I’m not shocked bc generally the predominant view is that the Pol Pot movement was a CIA-backed cudgel against (socialist) Vietnam and Laos instead of its own organic movement (though I have not investigated modern Cambodian history enough to affirm or deny these claims). In this sense, Cambodia is viewed as exceptional and not socialist, compared to say, the USSR, Cuba, China, Yugoslavia, Poland, GDR, etc. and even places that are viewed as genuine socialist attempts but utter failures like Yemen and Afghanistan.

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      • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Real recognize real

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