Cowbee

@Cowbee@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed! They take issue more with the argument style to dismiss the substance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a real thing, for sure, but more often than not is used as a conversation terminator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, comrade! No worries, it’s very flattering, but this won’t be the last time someone accuses you of being me making an alt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, I’m not @Cowbee_Admirer@reddthat.com. You can check @vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net’s account and see that he writes in a similar style that is distinct from mine. While flattering, I’d actually appreciate if comrade vovchik_ilich didn’t use my username as an alt-name, even if it isn’t the same, because I don’t like the idea of a cult of personality around me and because it can lead to confusion, like here.

  I have 3 accounts: @Cowbee@lemmy.ml, @Cowbee@hexbear.net, and @Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml. I used to have a lemm.ee account that I abandoned before making my Lemmy.ml account, made my Hexbear alt a long while after, and a Grad account very recently. I only use Lemmy.ml when interacting with any federated instance, and scroll Grad and Hexbear locally.

  All that being said, you have no evidence that I have multiple accounts, nor can you actually argue against the points being made. This is just conspiracy-theory nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the same understanding of socialism as Marx, Engels, Lenin, and those who uphold them today. Cuba, Vietnam, the PRC, etc are all examples of socialism. Socialism is, at its simplest, public ownership as the principle aspect of the economy and the working classes in control of the state.

  Who are these “modern socialists?” Do you have a country you can point to, or perhaps an organization? Why are these “modern” socialists as compared to what I uphold?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither do I. They all support the working class controlling the state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is what I support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither do I. They all support the working class controlling the state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is what I support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t “lick authoritarian boot” for supporting existing socialism, and the person you’re replying to isn’t me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering you think you’re replying to me, I’m not a fascist, I’m a communist, same as Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc. There are no CPC agents pointing guns at me, I’m a communist that organizes in real life.

  I also can’t ban you anywhere, the only space I moderate is Hexbear’s c/theory comm, which on a .world account you can’t even see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the same kind of socialist as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Thomas Sankara, Stalin, Mao, etc. I’m a Marxist-Leninist, communist, whatever you want to call me. I’m no Nazi, and equating Nazism with communism contributes to Double Genocide Theory, a form of Holocaust trivialization.

  I’m also not banned here either, I can talk to you just fine. This is a conspiracy-theory with 0 evidence, I’m not sure why you believe it so strongly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always claims of sea-lioning, but never any evidence. You’ve had me blocked for over a year now, why continue this crusade?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, there are a lot of bad-faith critiques going around. I do think that your point using me as an example doesn’t really work if your example is out of context. The thing about propaganda is that anyone pushing a particular view is propagandizing, but that doesn’t mean it’s inherently misinformation. Identifying bias is important, as is developing media literacy to see where people are being less than truthful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really think this is true, I engage with the entirety of what people say. As far as I know, you have Lemmy.ml blocked on your piefed account, and we haven’t interacted in years, so I’m not sure where you’re getting this idea from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh hey, it’s worth noting that that particular screengrab is taken out of context and was deliberately intended to make me appear that way. I even concede that one can disagree with Marx and Engels, my point was more against those who claim to agree with them but strongly disagree with the socialist market economy of China. I oppose anyone that tries to treat theory like gospel, that’s why I usually don’t reference theory directly unless it’s directly relevent like it was in this case.

  That’s the thing, people propagandize about us as well, like the MeanwhileOnGrad crowd that took that snippet out of context. You’re doing the same here, by extrapolating an entire behavior of me from a single, out-of-context snippet hosted in a Nazi bar. What’s important is that we actually pay attention to what others are saying, because everyone is guilty of thinking they are correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome, thanks! I hope they’re useful for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What is a “proper communist country?” The people on Lemmy.ml by and large agree with what the broad majoroty of practicing communist parties believe, including groups like the Black Panther Party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is true though, users should be able to pick up on that the instance that makes copying communist theory a part of the sign up process might have communists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a single person says the Russian Federation is socialism. You’re confusing people critically supporting its movements against the US Empire with people believing it to be socialist. They do have rising socialist sympathies among the populace, but that doesn’t make them socialist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, Lemmy.ml does as well, it forces you to copy a section of The Principles of Communism before joining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically it’s Engels, in The Principles of Communism, last I checked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re wrong about the Marxist-Leninist position, though, and that’s exactly why the compass makes no sense. Marxists all agree on using the state as the collective means by which planning is accomplished. All the compass does is make things more confusing.

  Overall, it is much better to abandon trying to measure things on a non-existent spectrum than it is to try to force them into one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Left vs right is broadly okay if framed as collectivized ownership as principle vs privatized ownership as principle, but economies in the real world aren’t “pure,” and trying to gauge how left or right a country is by proportion of the economy that is public vs private can be misleading. The next part, “libertarian vs authoritarian,” is a false binary. The state is thoroughly linked to the mode of production, you don’t just pick something on a board and create it in real life. There’s no such thing as “libertarian capitalism,” as an example. Centralization vs decentralization may make more sense, but that can also be misleading, as centralized systems can be more democratic than decentralized systems.

  This is a pretty good, if long, video on the subject. The creator of the compass is also politically biased.

  As a fun little side-note, I can answer the standard political compass quiz and get right around the bottom-left while being a Marxist-Leninist that approves of full collevtivization of production and central planning. Yet, at the same time, the quiz will put socialist states in the top left, seemingly based on how the creator wants to represent things. It’s deeply flawed. Add on the fact that it’s more of an idealist interpretation of political economy than a materialist one, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit 🫠

  Guess I have an alternate personality that actually knows tech and can host awesome wesites like ComLib? News to me! Or, this personality of me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are actually a few active anarchists on Lemmy.ml, for the reasons Diva is stating. It’s broadly federated and doesn’t crack down on leftists, even if it’s majority Marxist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, some of us Marxist-Leninists used to be anarchists. That’s how I came to Marxism-Leninism, actually, so it isn’t that I misunderstand the anarchist viewpoint, I’ve just come to agree more with Marxists over time and after reading more theory from both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve previously claimed other users are alts of me, which is especially funny considering I only use accounts with the same name for the sake of transparency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know what you mean by the concept of base and superstructure being “insane.” It’s a general observation that the way we produce shapes our culture, which reinforces the way we produce.

  You’re also fundamentally entirely wrong about communism. Communism isn’t when you have a bunch of tools in a pile and everyone can walk up to it and use it, then throw it back into the pile, or anything, it’s a fully collectively owned and planned industrial economy. The tragedy of the commons doesn’t apply to, say, the post office, as an example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The 1930s famine in the Soviet Union wasn’t anything intentional, but was the result of adverse weather conditions combined with kulaks destroying grain and livestock rather than let their property be collectivized and benefit the workers they exploited for centuries. Tragic, yes, evil? No, if anything the kulaks have a better claim to that.

  I don’t know if you know this, but the USSR dissolved 3 decades ago. Putin isn’t a communist, nor is the Russo-Ukrainian War a genocide, but a war. The extermination of Palestine at the hands of Israel is a genocide. Really confused why you’re bringing up Putin unless your point is that Russians are intrinsically evil, when we are specifically talking about the Soviet Union.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thr Nazis murdered KPD members and other union organizers, that was how they came into power. They also massacred Jewish people, disabled people, queer people, etc. They came into power as an answer to “Judeo-Bolshevism,” they didn’t simply want power for the sake of power, but to protect private capital.