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I appreciate the super open and honest discourse! I’ve only studied a little bit of Marx/Engels and then some of the Frankfurt School and some post Marxist and post structuralist stuff, I’m looking forward to engaging and learning more.

Within you there are two wolves

Right, I know NATO was literally created as a show of united force against the Soviet Union post WW2- when you say encirclement, what does that mean? Is it specifically the growth of NATO to include more States in what’s traditionally Russia’s sphere of influence?

Ty for the links! I’ll give it a watch

What’s more American than casually preventing brown people from participating in governance?

Thank you for the reply! This has been super helpful in guiding some reading and providing some context. It’s very interesting that there was quite a bit of criticism from all sides about the laws outright banning discussion and support of communism. Following that, there didn’t seem to be much in the way of responsiveness to that criticism. Even the Venice Commission was pretty highly critical of it, and of conflating Communism with Nazism.

Ok, so I want to know, if anyone would be kind enough to humor me, what’s the general understanding of the context behind the war in Ukraine here, on Hexbear?

My personal understanding has been shaped by just passively existing on the Internet through this event, and I’m curious if there’s another perspective that I’ve not been exposed to.

“Some ideologies are inherently more violent than others,” she said, sitting in a chair on land stolen from indigenous people and stained with their blood, “Manifest Destiny never hurt anyone and capitalism is fully ethical.”

“Running from lions.” Fucking idiot. Same old “we saved them from barbarism” bullshit that’s been fed to colonialist shills for centuries now. Find a new line lol. Guy’s probably just reciting shit he heard from some other racist asshole.

I gotta say, I was expecting vitriol when I first got a reply to a comment from a Hexbear user, but y’all are genuinely appreciative of discourse and it’s been refreshing to not immediately be attacked when I argue in good faith. Y’all are getting a bad rap lol, glad to be able to communicate with you