By ratio, there are way more communists than on Reddit. There are three major groups, anarchists, Marxist-Leninists, and liberals, and each instance tends to have more of one or maybe 2 than the others. Getting a feel for instance culture goes a long way.

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Awesome! I’d love to learn it too for that reason, I just have other languages that are a higher priority for me.

There’s so much that was never translated, as you of course know.

They were always for imperialist ambitions and genocide, from the outset.

I do want to eventually learn Russian, but I’m already learning a second language and Spanish will be my third. Maybe Mandarin as my fourth. Russian as fifth? Doubt I’ll get that far, sadly.

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It’s true, though. The various SSRs and SFSRs had national autonomy while being part of an internationalist socialist economy.

The PRC is not helping the US and Israel disarm the resistance. China has affirmed that Palestinians must control Palestine in their own state, and served as a vital mediator for the 2024 Beijing Declaration, where Fatah and Hamas were brought closer together and the resistance as a whole in Palestine came together to collaborate more closely, alongside China. In the 2024 Beijing Declaration, which China was a core mediator for, it was declared that the resistance must not be disarmed.

China has consistently only ever veto’d at the security council if it is willing to intervene millitarily in order to protect the veto’d outcome. The PRC has veto’d sanctions on the DPRK, and has enforced that veto by increasing trade with the DPRK. The US Empire has never been stopped by a veto, such as when it was determined to stop shipping arms to Haiti, which the US subverted. China vetoing the UNSC declaration on Palestine would mean mobilizing its army to directly prevent the US’s plans for the region.

If we look at how resistance orgs are responding, they aren’t blaming China. Instead, they have similar analysis to China, that is that the plan itself is unworkable and that they cannot implement it in the first place. China also adhered its best to both the PLO, who endorsed TRUST, and Hamas, the PFLP, etc that oppose TRUST.

Personally, I would rather China take a more millitant anti-imperialist stance than their current passive stance. There’s good reason to believe this will be the case in the future, as younger generations in China are more millitant and more overwhelmingly pro-Palestine. However, I don’t confuse imperfect allies for enemies, which is the western-leftist mistake you’ve fallen for. You did the same with Hexbear, calling them “transzionist” and claiming they ban critique of contrapoints because she’s trans. The reality is that Hexbear is anti-zionist and pro-trans, and regularly clowns on contrapoints for her awful liberalism.

China is contributing to a multi-polar world. China’s position in the global stage facilitates south-south trade, which bypasses unequal exchange, where the global north maintains monopolies on high tech industries so as to consistently charge monopoly prices in exchange with the global south. China charges non-monopoly prices, and this is why exchange with China, alongside the rise of the Belt and Road Initiative, has resulted in dramatic development in African and Latin American countries. This is ultimately the single greatest contributor to the downfall of imperialism globally, and is why right now there is such a large cold war with China.

Your confusion of imperfect allies with enemies is why the western left has continued to fail to meaningfully challenge the status quo. Jones Manoel was correct in Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution. Western leftists do the work of the US Empire by making the same mistakes you’ve been making with respect to China, thereby sabotaging allies and making the efforts of the ones actually arming, facilitating, and committing the genocide easier.

TL;DR join an org. Having a practical outlet to test theory to practice, and directly organize against arming and supporting Israel, is a much better use of your time. It will also help you form a more correct understanding of anti-imperialist struggle.

It’s not because the majority “lets” violent aggressors get what they want, it’s because capitalism as a system selects for those most willing to do whatever it takes to gain the most profit. It’s a control system that selects for profit, if a capitalist is unwilling to do whatever it takes then another overtakes them. Socialist countries don’t have these same problems to nearly the same extent.

People generally operate by licensing themselves to believe what they want to. Until their material conditions force them into accepting reality, they will continue to license themselves purely to believe that which upholds their present worldview.

We all do this, to be clear, but understanding that process helps us understand our limitations.

When western, pro-NATO outlets are forced to admit and report on ongoing corruption scandals in Ukraine, you really have to wonder how much overwhelming evidence it will take to convince you that something may be afoot in the Banderite-controlled Ukrainian government.

The US has floated the idea of using special forces units as an alternative to land invasion, so sabotage isn’t unlikely.

This is expressly being pushed by the US state department to undermine a popularly supported progressive leader. This is a fascist coup attempt:

Lemmy is developed by communists, and Reddit banned a bunch of leftist subreddits like r/chapotraphouse, r/GenZedong, and r/TheDeprogram. As a consequence, a bunch of communists are on Lemmy by ratio compared to Reddit, though Lemmy.world is defederated and blocks 2/3rds of the major communist instances, so you can’t actually see them. They usually are on Lemmygrad.ml or Hexbear.net if you want to see the communist side of Lemmy.

Lemmy.ml is the dev’s testing instance, so that’s why a lot of communists are here but also why it’s not defederated by Lemmy.world.

Close to nothing, at this point. Sometimes I search for answers to technical questions and find them on Reddit, but that’s about it.

It’s a spectrum and a person who supports the government having more control of their citizens is considering authoritarian. A person who wants to limit government control over their citizens is more libertarian.

These are your words. I do read what you write, as much as you insist that I’m not. I agree that this conversation isn’t very productive, but I think it’s more due to your refusal to actually engage with what I’ve been saying and instead just re-affirm the useless political compass as though it actually means anything.

Really don’t like the way you casually look down on the homeless, too.

You’ve said “authoritarianism” is about “restricting individual freedoms,” and categorized me and existing socialist states as “authoritarian.” These are contradictions, though, they both cannot be true.

I understand that you are generally categorizing socialist society as something on the left, and saying you can have a bigger or smaller state, etc. I am telling you that this isn’t how society works in real life. The state and the mode of production are interconnected, and reinforce each other. They aren’t sliders you select in a lab, you can’t just have a bigger or smaller state like that.

I’m not a bot, no. You haven’t responded to me saying class analysis is critical, you’ve brushed it aside entirely and continued to re-affirm the original statement.

This is not how any communist views authority or the state. All communists are in favor of abolishing the state. This requires erasing the basis of the state, which is class society, and that requires collectivizing production and distribution. With production and distribution collectivized, class doesn’t exist, and as such the state withers as it loses its reason to function.

It isn’t about “giving the state power.” It’s about taking state power from the capitalist class, and creating a working class state. This socialist state does not have “more power” than a capitalist state, the class it serves is what’s distinct.

Leftists usually fall into the Marxist umbrella or anarchist umbrella. Marxists are for collectivization, while anarchists are for communalization.

When I say “communalization,” I mean anarchists propose horizontalist, decentralized cells, similar to early humanity’s cooperative production but with more interconnection and modern tech. When I say collectivization, I mean the unification of all of humanity into one system, where production and distribution is planned collectively to satisfy the needs of everyone as best as possible.

For anarchists, collectivized society still seems to retain the state, as some anarchists conflate administration with the state as it represents a hierarchy. For Marxists, this focus on communalism creates inter-cell class distinctions, as each cell only truly owns their own means of production, giving rise to class distinctions and thus states in the future.

For Marxists, socialism must have a state, a state can only wither with respect to how far along it has come in collectivizing production and therefore eliminating class. All states are authoritarian, but we cannot get rid of the state without erasing the foundations of the state: class society, and to do so we must collectivize production and distribution globally. Socialist states, where the working class wields its authority against capitalists and fascists, are the means by which this collectivization can actually happen, and are fully in-line with Marx’s beliefs. Communism as a stateless, classless, moneyless society is only possible post-socialism.

Anarchists obviously disagree with this, and see the state more as independent of class society and thus itself must be abolished outright.

This is not at all about being more “authoritarian” or “libertarian.” It’s a fundamentally different understanding of class and power dynamics, and both seek a liberated society. The political compass cannot depict this, even if the liberal view of anarchism and Marxism wants to point them as two extremes on a tidy graph with most people in the middle of them. What’s important is that politics is not a bell curve, Marxism and anarchism are consistent ideologies with specific tendencies under them that fundamentally contradict. People don’t just pick what they like from each (usually), because then they cease to be internally consistent.

I’m telling you that you’re running into extreme absurdities. I have more personal freedom in a socialist society, where my needs are more assured, than I do in capitalist society, even if said capitalist society was more of a nightwatchman state. By making “authority” purely about how the state treats anyone, and removing all economics from the equation, you create absurd contradictions. That’s why class analysis is important.

The political compass makes no sense. It’s sole purpose is to affirm liberalism by pretending there’s a spectrum of libertarian to authoritarian, when such terms are utterly meaningless when looked at without understanding class. What matters is who is the state serving, how, and why, not if the state is mean or if the state is nice.