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Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI’m not up on all the instance lore/drama, what’s up with .ml?
Blaze@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thanks, that helps me understand the context a bit more than just their political perspective. I’m no tankie, but I take much bigger issue with the censorship of dissent than with their tankie status in-and-of itself
Blaze@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Happy to help
Lightor@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve had more comments deleted and nonsensical bans from ml than I have my entire time in social media. It’s crazy, they are a hard core echo chamber running on a power trip.
Famko@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s a tankie instance, the ml stands for Marxism-Leninism
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Unfortunately they are more Stalinist/Maoist than Marxist.
I’m Marxist myself and think that they are authoritarian scumbags over at ML.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Exactly. I was quite pleased to see, when I first joined Lemmy, that there were people that were into Marxism.
Only to discover their adoration of Stalin and other autocrat dictators. What an utterly weird take on Marxism that is.
Famko@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Isn’t Marxism-Leninism an authoritarian ideology?
Mind you, I’m a leftist as well, so this question is actually genuine lol.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Leninism maybe.
Marxism advocates for a utopia without heirarchy (specifically capitalist heirarchy) where the state withers away. However, I’d note that I differ with marx in one key aspect, which makes me an anarcho-marxist or anarcho-communist. Marx thinks this heirarchyless utopia coule only be achieved if we gave the workers power, and had what he called a “dictatorship by the proletariat”. I think that when any strata of society gets more power than another, they will try to keep it, and they have power on their side, so they usually do. The state exists for two reasons, to keep itself alive, and to benefit it’s upper strata.
Which is why I advocate for achieving heirarchyless and stateless society without Marx’s middle step.
andrew@radiation.party 4 weeks ago
I doubt that was literally their intent, it’s just a free TLD
Famko@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I mean, the .ml domain stands for the country Mali normally, but I don’t think an instance like lemmygrad.ml is in Mali (and they also lack subtlety, per their name).
andrew@radiation.party 4 weeks ago
My point was that it’s one of a very short list of free top-level domains, and was likely chosen because it was free and didn’t have the same reputation that, say, .tk had.