Cowbee [he/they] @ Cowbee @lemmy.ml

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Yes, I know I can't interact with MeanwhileOnGrad on Lemmy.ml because it's blocked, and I can't on Hexbear because sh.itjust.works is blocked. I don't really care for those instances where stalkers post out of context screenshots in order to drum up hate against Communists, or where the admin peddles conspiracy theories about foreign nations pushing "transgender ideology" to radicalize youths against the US.

I tend to defend Hexbear because more often than not I see lies told about it from people who were correctly banned and lied about the reason for banning, or from anticommunists. I make it a point to study history and read Marx and Marxist theory, so when I see fabrications, I try to point them out.

For reference, I don't think many people would want to go along with whatever you want them to if you try to reveal information normally kept private. I don't really care about upvotes or downvotes, or who knows about them, but as a rule of thumb it isn't pleasant to have people try to "expose" you and force an apology, no matter what it is.

What do you mean by "oligarchs painted in red?" How do you think AES states function? June 4th, 1989 was a tragic day where hundreds of people around Beijing were killed, students and soldiers alike, and the 1930s famine in the USSR was similarly tragic. I don't think either the PRC or USSR intended for either of those events to happen the way they did.

Nowhere, but I'd like to know what you mean by any of that.

I can't interact with MeanwhileOnGrad from either of my 2 accounts, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. I remember an admin abusing admin privledges to try to intimidate me into apologizing about who I upvoted and downvoted, so if that's you then I suppose that checks out.

That, I do not know.

Not much. The domain isn't the server. Hexbear will be fine, under another name.

I'm aware. The "tankie" instances have stances that are overwhelmingly in line with Marxist orgs and parties worldwide, so the "anti-tankie" users either need to admit to just being anti-Marxist or try to honestly learn more.

It isn't "JAQ," I asked a specific pair of questions because vague gesturing isn't effective communication. For your edit, removing control from the Bourgeoisie, defending revolution, and having the Dictatorship of the Proletariat control the press is straight from Marx, so I guess you mean Marxism is "tankie ideology." I don't know what you mean by dictatorships, nor ethnic cleansing, this just seems to be more vague assertions.

What makes someone a Leftist, vs an "authoritarian masquerading as a leftist?" What is "tankie ideology?"

Don't know what you're talking about, to be honest. Do you have a link?

I feel that your comment was so vague it didn't end up saying anything though.

That's very vague and doesn't really say anything though. Why should someone listen to your take on it?

Beanis is an in-joke on Hexbear, Hexbear is very vegan and a lotta people love beans. The pursuit of more beanis is a part of that joke, so if bean.is wasn't expensive it probably would have won.

1. The Soviet Union was democratic. They had a structure called Soviet Democracy, elaborated on in Soviet Democracy, written by Pat Sloan. It looked like this in practice:

2. The people participated in and owned the government.
3. The government was not a "private entity," that's deeply silly.

Even if all of what drag said was true, it still would not be neoliberal, itself an ideology surrounding privatization and international Capitalism. drag has been explained all of this before, though, drag is just a Nazi-defending troll, so drag doesn't actually care.

Very silly to call a publicly owned and planned economy where the Working Class was in power "neoliberal." Words have meaning because people need to communicate, just calling everything random names doesn't help that.

Not sure how that connects, I support AES and I'm a Marxist-Leninist, the target of McCarthyism. drag calling people lynching the Soviets as "Communists" is very silly, the Communists and peasants in Hungary opposed the Nazis who were lynching Communists and Jewish people.

I think lynching the Communist, Soviet officials and Jewish people is a pretty Nazi thing to do, especially coming from people that sided with the Nazis in World War II and were being made to pay reparations for doing so. drag has no coherent ideology other than getting upset at Communists to the point of defending Nazis.

Maybe drag could stop defending Nazi sympathizers that lynched Communists and Jewish people as "revolutionaries." If the Soviets gave power to the Nazi sympathizers, the pograms would have continued. Seems the origin of the Nazi problem was the Nazis, and not the anti-fascist Red Army.

I think the obsession with "purity" is just dogmatism, though. Systems are what they are, not some form of pure distilled ideology.

Englighten me, drag. What did the counter-revolutionaries spend their time doing when they weren't working with the Nazis against the Socialists?