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• TurkishKebab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  These liberals and their “both-siding” will be the death of us all

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• finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tankies support China and the USSR, neither of which have ever practiced rule by the proletariat, and of which the remainder is committing their own little genocide at home.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Weird how they brought a billion farmers out of poverty. I wonder why they would do that if those farmers didn’t have any influence.

    We certainly don’t see that happening in capitalist countries right nextdoor, such as India.

    the remainder is committing their own little genocide at home

    lol you still believe that? Anybody can literally go to Xinjiang, there’s no travel restrictions. Don’t you think they would try to keep foreigners from going there and talking to people if they were committing a genocide?

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    • finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thank you for being a perfect example of the point I was making, enjoy your dead minorities and your roads paved in the blood of the innocent.

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      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ah yes, if you oppose capitalism too much, you just start hating minorities. That’s just horseshoe theory. They wouldn’t teach it in schools if it wasn’t true.

        Definitely don’t come to China, Vietnam, or Cuba and check for yourself, just trust your government.

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• kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Dictatorship of the proletariat doesn’t mean total rule by one dude named proletariat, it means total rule by the people.

  Tankies want a vanguard of the best brightest to lead and educate the proletariat into a new “socialist” future. Conveniently, the best and brightest happens to be them and their homies.

  They also just so happen to have a new vision of socialist utopianism of you working in a sweat shop for 14 hours a day and eating rationed food while they sip fine wines and write bullshit very online mutants will recite as scripture in the future.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Instead of listening to anticommunists from a century ago, why don’t we compare what communists have done in China over 50 years to their neighbor, India? One of those countries exports food for a profit while the children of the laborers who picked that food suffer from malnutrition. Or why don’t we look at life expectancy in Cuba today and before the revolution. You can even compare Cuba to their capitalist ruled neighbors.

    To quote (Michael Parenti)[youtube.com/watch?v=xP8CzlFhc14]:

    If Communists, if we Leftists, if we Marxists, if we revolutionaries, if we progressives, if we—all we want is to hunger for power, then why do we side with the powerless? Then why don’t we toady up to power? Why don’t we take the road of the Henry Kissingers and the Patrick—Daniel Patrick Moynihans and the Zbigniew Brzezinskis and the Eugene V. Rostows and the McGeorge Bundys, who toady up and mouth for power? When Henry Kissinger was made National Security Advisor for Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller gave him fifty-thousand bucks as a going-away present.

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