Are you doing that on Lemmy? In what communities?
Unfortunately on this community
The authoritarian left and the liberal left have so little in common that it’s frustrating the term “left” encompasses both.
Depends a lot on where you live. In many countries, communism is simply considered “radical/violent” rather than “authoritarian”, and one is not considered a leftist of any sort unless they defend a leftist stance on the economy (progressive views on social issues may not be described as leftist everywhere).
And the authoritarians try to reconcile this issue by saying we liberals are actually on the right. How wonderful!
You can argue with communists, you can’t argue with fanboys or those who accepted Marx as the one and true Messiah and tell you to read ze book instead of providing any points. But that’s applicable to pretty much every topic (oop bad, for example).
I’m happy to hear this coming from someone on ml. At least some of you still possess the ability to reason.
Sorry to disappoint, but I’m not exactly into Marxism-Leninism, I’m more of an anarchist myself (the idea of dictatorship, be it of a working class or anyone else, doesn’t sit right with me). And ml was chosen at the time just due to it being hosted by the Lemmy devs
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat isn’t a literal dictatorship, but an establishment of Proletarian supremacy over Capital. It’s still democratic.
Allrighty, a poor choice of words, then. What I meant was more or less along the lines of “while I like the idea of communism, I think maintaining vertical power structures while trying to make it happen is more or less doomed to result in yet another autocracy”
You may be interested in the article Why do Marxists Fail to Bring the “Worker’s Paradise?” Marxists disagree with AES being autocracies, while acknowledging that AES certainly isn’t a wonderland.
Additionally, Marxists don’t have an issue with hierarchy, but classes. The Marxist and Anarchist notions of the state are different, and as such judging AES by how well it advanced goals it never had is a bit silly.
One must find the anti-communist happy in their prison/punishment for being despotic, because they continue to repeat the same hypothetical thing everytime?
Yes, being crushed by the weight of your own poor arguments, comprehension, and philosophy is probably quite an accurate way to describe arguing against a communist.
“No matter how hard I try I cannot defeat the immortal science of Marxism Leninism!”
Nah, it’s not really a communist issue. It’s tankie, the one that faithful to that few authoritarian country like a little lap dog they are, regardless of nuance. They only see one side having issue but refuse to see why socialism didn’t work all the time. It’s always capitalism bad socialism good, never a balance of both.
What’s a “tankie,” in your eyes, and how are they meaningfully distinct from Communists? Marxists defend AES, can acknowledge the failures and struggles of AES while praising the myriad successes as well, it’s liberals that always refuse to have a nuanced take on AES.
Secondly, there is no such thing as a “balance of both” Capitalism and Socialism. Either the Proletariat is in charge or the Bourgeoisie are in charge, and as such there will never be a balance.
Tankie - Mao-dickriding extremists that refuse to accept any nuance
Not every communist throats the cocks of dictators like putin, Stalin, Mao, and the kims, so that’s one meaningful distinction.
Haven’t seen anyone doing that, plus that’s a homophobic and misogynistic framing of that statement anyways.
Ohh, fine then. From your opinion i concluded all communist is just a bunch of extremist like you i guess, because no nuance allowed. It’s all black and white.
Nuanced views of AES is extremist?
Watch out, you’re going to be banned for espousing incorrect doctrine.
I don’t mind being banned from an ml community tbh
Oh shit better look out, we got an edgelord here!
Ironic that you’re using the comic about using bad faith debates in order to shut down this thread complaining about bad faith debates on ML.
Ever heard of horseshoe theory?
Horseshoe theory is debunked nonsense, using it like a trump card in an argument is hilarious.
Read Blackshirts and Reds, by the way.
I recently saw a video on it, saying that it’s true, but in tge context of US politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWy8EEqXbBgAs an outsider looking at America, the vid makes sense. I saw some comments on the net say that RW Trump was the first US president to go to Nk and meet Kim rather than some LW one. I don’t know whether the meetings were useful tho
Ever heard of horseshoe theory?
Yep.
Have you heard of the fish hook theory?
That repeatedly disproven line of horseshit? Yeah I’ve heard of it. Wasn’t impressed.
It’s never occurred to the “very reasonable centrist” neoliberal free market extremist warmongers that THEY are the insane radicals
