LesbianLiberty [she/her]

Are Cuba and Vietnam considered good or bad? Nicaragua? How about the new coup leaders in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger? Any successful revolution has demonstrated the necessity of authority, to enforce an ideological will on society and stop the bourgeois class from re-appearing requires authority. Any revolution with be authoritarian, even and especially if it is the oppressed overthrowing the oppressor.

Sure, say you don’t like China, the Soviet Union, or the DPRK for your own reasons, but why use a term that encompasses any successful revolution, as even the CNT-FAI was finding a need for things like secret police during the awful times of a revolution.

You should maintain your site culture, but there’s a reason anti-communists and fascists use the term tankie as well, it’s imprecise and volatile.

Edit: I apologize if this is not a post meant to invite discussion, I just don’t see this perspective shared very often in these conversations.

I will say, the reason that became part of the community culture in the first place is because sexual harassment as a joke or just general horniness can make leftist spaces way more toxic for those sexualized. Generally if you’re doing IRL stuff do NOT date or sleep w ur comrades as shit can get messy fast.

If instances can participate in asymmetric information warfare without reprisal, the Lemmy experiment has failed.

Dog what do they think this is, it’s a reddit clone dumbass, get a grip

*stares in transgender*

Idiots have been going “I’m fiscally conservative but socially liberal” since south park first aired lol

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

It’s certainly the most trans friendly place I’ve encountered bar none, the original CTH helped me realize I was trans

Hey come on American Liberals, this whole Russian Federation thing was your idea, who do you think supported Yeltsin and Putin to power? Maybe if you don’t like him then you should take it up with the guys who gave him that job.

Anticommunism leads to liberalism or fascism? I’m hearing this for the first time, terrible news, terrible news. It was a great instance, a beautiful instance.

the people’s police? You mean like Tianenmen Square?

NYPD filmed running over BLM protestors for no reason vs Full Footage of Tank Man incident showing that twelve tanks stop for one man and are patient and permissive enough to allow him to climb onto their tanks

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