Like I have any money to spend on things.
Got a perfect score on my Communist Manifesto essay for poli-sci cause apparently like 2/3 of the class wrote about the capitalism/socialism/communism spectrum that doesn’t actually exist. America rots your brain but at least my scholarship is safe :marx-ok:
why does every remotely left leaning subreddit somehow fill up with anti communist “socialists”? its wildly frustrating. to clarify, i’m an anarchist and i’m just waiting for someone to call me red fash/tankie at this point
because bernie rebranded socialism as the mildest form of social democracy.
I’m not an American “”“”““socialist””“”“” as you can see from my reply to OP, but criticizing Bernie is dumb. Socdems in Europe were criticized because they were opportunists who diverted people from actual existing and viable communist parties, as well as diverting people from radical union action.
In the US, there are no viable communist parties, and no large-scale radical unions, so criticizing Bernie from that angle is meaningless. We can’t criticize Bernie for stealing voters from non-existent third parties.
that feels like a chicken and the egg problem. There are no viable leftist parties because the Democratic party has shepherd dogs leading us back to centrist candidates. Two elections in a row, we had Bernie, 2024 we’ll have AOC. If we worked our ass off starting now, we could have a viable party by 2024.
The definition of left is very fucking eroded in our current culture. If you stick to making solid arguments you will sway them eventually. Prolly how a lot of us got here.
Its the same good negro/bad negro propaganda used by slavers. Good leftists are those who criticize AES societies and who dont do “authoritarian” things like organizing radical unions or forming militias. Bad leftists are those who point out the massive successes of AES societies, point out the useful lessons learned from their experience and who are “authoritarian” (read : willing to actually do useful stuff other than voting or charity)
So be a good little leftist, don’t get out of line, and you’re rewarded with patting on your head, like a master would to his cur. But be a bad leftist, acquire actual material economic and political power, you face ostracism, arrest or worst-case execution like Fred Hampton.
criticize AES societies
“critical support”
Bad leftists are those who point out the massive successes of AES societies, point out the useful lessons learned from their experience
You literally just defined criticism as reactionary, cognitive dissonance is off the charts!
Had to put down my dog this morning. His health turned south last night out of nowhere. There was a malignant tumour near his heart and fluid was leaking and affecting his heart and oxygen intake. It was really tragic because he seemed healthy and happy as we had to put him down, but he was dependent on oxygen so we couldn’t even get a last weekend together.
"Mao had often noted that Lenin had Nicholas “II, the last Russian emperor, shot together with the rest of the Russian imperial family, as Lenin could not make the last tsar into a communist; making the last Chinese emperor into a Communist was intended to show the superiority of Chinese communism over Soviet communism.[234] Puyi was to be subjected to “remodeling” to make him into a Communist.”
And he succeeded
Mao has the biggest dick of anyone in history.
Reading about how is interesting.
Puyi had never brushed his teeth or tied his own shoelaces once in his life and had to do these basic tasks in prison, subjecting him to the ridicule of other prisoners.[240] Much of Puyi’s “remodeling” consisted of attending “Marxist-Leninist-Maoist discussion groups” where the prisoners would discuss their lives before being imprisoned.[241] When Puyi protested to Jin that it had been impossible to resist Japan and there was nothing he could have done, Jin confronted him with people who had fought in the resistance and had been tortured, and asked him why ordinary people in Manchukuo resisted while an emperor did nothing.[242] Puyi had to attend lectures where a former Japanese civil servant spoke about the exploitation of Manchukuo while a former officer in the Kenpeitai talked about how he rounded up people for slave labor and ordered mass executions.[243] At one point, Puyi was taken to Harbin and Pingfang to see where the infamous Unit 731, the chemical and biological warfare unit in the Japanese Army, had conducted gruesome experiments on people. Puyi noted in shame and horror: “All the atrocities had been carried out in my name”.[243] Puyi by the mid-1950s was overwhelmed with guilt and often told Jin that he felt utterly worthless to the point that he considered suicide.[244] Jin told Puyi to express his guilt in writing. Puyi later recalled he felt “that I was up against an irresistible force that would not rest until it found out everything”.[245] Sometimes Puyi was taken out for tours of the countryside of Manchuria. On one, he met a farmer’s wife whose family had been evicted to make way for Japanese settlers and had almost starved to death while working as a slave in one of Manchukuo’s factories.[246] When Puyi asked for her forgiveness, she told him “It’s all over now, let’s not talk about it”, causing him to break down in tears.[247] At another meeting, a woman described the mass execution of people from her village by the Japanese Army, and then declared that she did not hate the Japanese and those who had served them as she retained her faith in humanity, which greatly moved Puyi.[248] On another occasion, Jin confronted Puyi with his former concubine Li in meetings in his office, where she attacked him for seeing her only as a sex object, and saying she was now pregnant by a man who loved her.[248]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi#Later_life_(1945–1967)
For anyone wondering where this is from. Looks like most is sourced from the book The Last Emperor.
Asshole is a massive understatement too. He signed off on all the horrible war crimes the Japanese did in Manchukuo, including slavery. He constantly had his servants beat each other, encouraged his wife’s opium addiction because it made her “mote manageable”, and constantly raped teenage boys (and probably girls).
Dude deserved a painful death, but Mao rehabilitated him just to dunk on Lenin lmao
people here claim that they hate capitalism yet they used capital letters :curious-marx:
says the person with capital letters in his username? sorry, iam the only leftist here.
