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Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.

SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

This can also be said of the Cuban diaspora. So many people that I know (including those in my family) will shit talk “communism” and praise Trump as if he was their own personal savior. This don’t even have a rudimentary understanding of Marxism let alone leftist political thought as a whole. Yes, Soviet-style Marxism-Leninism led to authoritarianism and the Castro regime wasn’t great. But do you really someone like Flugencio or (for a modern reference) Bukele serving US capitalist interests?

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Gorilladrums@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It doesn’t matter what style of Marxist ideology is attempted, they will all lead down to the same path of authoritarianism, mismanagement, and corruption. The ideologies and underlying framework are fundamentally flawed.

That being said, I don’t appreciate the false dichotomy. There’s clearly more, and way better options than a corrupt tyrannical leftist state or a corrupt tyrannical right wing state put in by the US. There’s no reason anyone should support either because they’re lesser of evils when there are paths to pick something that’s not evil at all.

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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I feel like I’m a rare breed of anti-communist that also isn’t anti-leftist.

I was born in PRC, I hate the CCP for both it’s politics and on a personal level (2nd child born under One Child Policy, which they tried to “terminate” me)

That said, I, as an immigrant to the US, I also despise the far-right. I never supported the republican party I always supported Democrats, despite me being pro-gun (cuz I’m not a single-issue voter), and more specifically, I support progressivism, like I liked Bernie the moment I heard about the Medicare 4 All and that sort of stuff (but wasn’t old enough to vote at the time). Like why the fuck would I support an ideology that wants to deport me? Lmfao. I know my history, I know of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Don’t want that shit to happen again.

I like Mamdani (I’m not a New Yorker anymore, used to live in NYC), cuz I know he ain’t a communist (as in the authoritarian stuff). A Democratic Socialist is not a communist.

I have nuance, normie don’t understand shit and instantly defaults to campism.

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