• Emi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Forget it, you said you are a democratic socialist right? Don’t fight loosing arguments about history with people. Shut them up with this one argument.

    “I will defend every seemingly communist country and their actions, only after you defend every capitalist nation and all of their actions. Simple enough right?”

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      1 year ago

      I’m not interested in defending any atrocities anywhere. Or making tyrants into folk heroes.

      My goal is simply to find a single leftist space on the internet which doesn’t just pretend like a century’s worth of real academic criticism of democratic centralism and associated revolutionary praxis doesn’t really exist, and anyone who expresses such criticism must simply be poorly informed and hasn’t read enough… Lenin. It’s misplaced and undeserved elitism at its finest. Or just a weird revolution fetish, it’s hard to tell sometimes. If you can feel my eyes rolling through the screen, it’s because, as I said previously, I’m tired of having this same conversation over and over again.