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bi_tux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
try posting it on grad, they’ll love it
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
A grad is being sent to your location
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Or ml. Or Hexbear.
Why can’t we have a leftist instance that doesn’t suck CCP dick?
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
lemmy.world is basically that. You’ll get the most concentrated socdem/socialist engagements without traipsing into hunny-cum-shot territory.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Lemmy.world absolutely isn’t Leftist, it’s overwhelmingly liberal and the mods are anti-Marxist, even defederating from Marxist instances. Lemmy.world is allowed to be a liberal instance, but pretending it’s socialist is silly.
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I mean, depends on the day. I see tons of very socialist/leftist memes and content posted to world. That being said, how many times do you need to circle jerk about socialism in the comments section on Lemmy? It’s not like anyone is actually going to do a proletariat revolution. At this point, it would just be Marxists “ackshually”-ing each other. I’m super bored of the lack of progress made in the discussions.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
So those people calling it neoliberal are fucking liars
PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, basically. ‘Neoliberal’ and ‘lib’ are just snarl words many tankies use to mean “Anyone less fascist than Mao”.
In general, .world is much less radical than many places on Lemmy. But they’re far from neoliberals. The average poster is slightly left of a Berniecrat, probably; that is to say, either a very strong SocDem or a very weak DemSoc.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The people who think .world is socialist also think socialism is when the government does things and that social democracy is a type of socialism and not a type of liberalism.
pjwestin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eh, it’s a mixed bag. There’s a very high concentration of centrist, “vote blue, no matter who,” liberals in Political Memes. They’re not the whole instance, but they’ve made a nice little echo chamber that makes them a pretty loud minority.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I still don’t get how the far leftists (the types who think soc dems are basically the same as any flavor of lib, including libertarian, neolib, etc) are so convinced that socialism is the answer when there hasn’t been a country that even comes close to making it work. I guess China works for certain values of working, but it’s pretty capitalist these days, and you’ve got an overbearing government that goes along with it.
Whereas countries like you see in Scandinavia, with strong soc dem policies under capitalism like high taxes on wealth and strong safety nets, seem to be doing pretty well. I get why socialism would be good in theory but implementing it is another story.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The short answer is that Socialism does work, and continues to work, and that SocDem countries like the Nordics depend on heavy exploitation of the Global South to fund their safety nets and still see shrinking worker power.
The longer answer is that Marxists don’t believe Socialism is better than Capitalism for any moral reason, but because they are Dialectical and Historical Materialists. They track where Capitalism is necessarily heading, ie free competition gives way to monopolist syndicates with internal planning, socializing themselves and making them ripe for public ownership and central planning.
A good primer is Why do Marxists Fail to Bring the “Worker’s Paradise?” an excellent article that goes over materialist examinations of AES states vs idealist examinations. Another good reference is Blackshirts and Reds. AES is by no means perfect, but it does and did work.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The Nordics still fucking suck, trust me.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Blåhaj is here! I don’t recall seeing a tankie with a blåhaj account, and also we have personalities outside of politics.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you check the Blahaj rules it explicitly states being tankie adjacent is a bannable offence, I love it.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Marxists generally support AES, so instances that are pro-Marxism tend to be supportive of the CPC. I don’t think there are any Syndicalist instances or anything, so you’d have to go to an Anarchist server like dbzer0 or something.
MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
AES?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yep! You got it. Cuba, PRC, the USSR (pre-dissolution), Vietnam, Laos, etc.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
most communities on ml are fine tho, also I got banned on hexbear because I called the CPC (their official name) CCP
barsquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The admins are tankies. It’s just better to avoid it. The smaller their communities the more of a joke it is getting banned for writing a fact.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t have a problem with any of the communities but I regularly catch the instance ban hammer for asinine reasons.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yeah, I mean you’re kinda right
PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
db0 is pretty neutral while being intentionally left.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I wouldn’t describe it as “neutral,” it’s definitely Anarchist dominant and the admins and users tend to be anti-Marxist. That’s fine for its audience, but if someone wants a Marxist instance dbzer0 isn’t really it.
PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That’s fair. I find it comfortable, but I’m really weird politically.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have this LINK to the Lefty Memes moderator on db0 advocating against Democracy, is an advocate for the CCP and for people in the USA to tear down the system and abandon NATO.
Malidak@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…medium.com/the-aes-doctrine-wrong-then-wrong-now…
This is a good read. There is a pretty large socialist movement that seems to have the idea that to reach global socialism we need to defend every self proclaimed socialist state without asking any questions at all and hope they’ll get better over time.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Ultraleftism, found in the author’s Maoist leanings, is also dogmatic. I really like the articles Socalism Developed China, Not Capitalism as well as Why do Marxists Fail to Bring the “Worker’s Paradise?” as both help recontextualize AES from a materialist lens, specifically from the frame of Historical Materlaism.
Blackshirts and Reds is a fantastic book, but the othet 2 articles are 20 minutes each and Blackshirts and Reds is a full book.
WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Doesn’t China advocate for a two state solution too? Even they aren’t arguing for Israel to not exist.
frezik@midwest.social 2 months ago
I love this article while also finding it frustrating. The author seems to be a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, but also goes into detail about how all the ML states have devolved into capitalism. Maybe that should be taken as evidence that ML’s vanguard party is fatally flawed?
Objection@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The idea that China was socialist under Mao but became capitalist under Deng is a common Maoist take and something that distinguishes them from Marxist-Leninists, it’s kind of right there in the name.
Sometimes when people call China capitalist, I half-jokingly ask if they’re a Maoist, or if they think the best policy is closer to Mao than what they’re currently doing. Of course, usually, the answer (when I get an answer at all) is no: they opposed what China was doing when it was more state-controlled and they opposed what China was doing when it did reforms and opened up to private investment, if they make moves to hold billionaires accountable to the law or to move more of the economy to the public sector, they’re bad, and if they did the opposite, that would also be bad, but if they stayed steady, that too would be bad.
Maoists and Capitalists are both at least coherent in what they think China should do, in opposite extremes: either undo the reforms and revert to how it was or liberalize further into a fully capitalist state. Marxist-Leninists tend to have more nuanced takes about adapting to changing conditions, in line with what they’ve done. But then you have this other category that’s super prevalent on Lemmy that wants to criticize China’s every move without ever offering any kind of coherent idea of what they actually want them to do, economically. I don’t even know what to call that position because it’s utterly incoherent.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Maoists are ultraleftists, they generally deviate from Marxism to an idealist, rather than a materislist degree. I recommend checking out my comment responding to them.
The Vanguard concept isn’t flawed, it has real basis in materialist understanding. The idea that AES states have “devolved into Capitalism” is wrong as well (except the USSR into the various post-Socialist states). I recommend reading both Why do Marxists Fail to Bring the “Worker’s Paradise?” as well as Socialism Developed China, Not Capitalism. The Dengist reforms were a reversion back towards Marxism, Mao had tried to achieve Communism through fiat without enough development of the productive forces and as such there were struggles and recessions.
Public Ownership and Central Planning works best on monopolist syndicates aquired by the State, that’s the entire reason why Marxists say Capitalism creates Socialism and that the bourgeoisie produces its own gravediggers first and foremost, this monopolization into internally planned syndicates makes Socialism a natural evolution on Capitalism, not a “better society” to force into existence.
gregor@gregtech.eu 2 months ago
Solarpunk is one. I guess my instance is leftist too, however it is very tiny.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
dbzer0 is another one. It’s an anarchist instance to be precise. @AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
From what I know, dbzer0 is libertarian left and therefore not tankie
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If I had to choose between a libertarian and a tankie I’d shoot myself with a rusty spork.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Maybe I should have said “anarchist left”. The term “Libertarian” is overtaken by the Right by now
BigFatNips@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Libertarian left is very different from “libertarian”
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
but dbzer0 is anarchist?
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yes
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
dbzer0 is anarchist, definitely not libertarian
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A lot of bad actors on Slrpnk but overall the community is anarchist leaning, anti-dictatorship.
OpenStars@discuss.online 2 months ago
Genuinely there are a lot of people that would like that. Maybe start with a community first before an entire instance.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
DB0 and Solarpunk