Wrapping up with some communist theory straight from the manifesto (sorry, not trying to indoctrinate, just trying to explain):
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
Also, the Fediverse is 100% a place to NOT calm down about stuff. It’s one of the few english-language spaces left on the internet where any political views outside of the NATO party line can be discussed with sincerity.
Some downvotes might be coming from the commies, but there are SO MANY LIBERALS and SO MANY FASCISTS that it’s more likely to be coming from them (unless you’re actively shitting on communism)
Ancom from hexbear, and, well, they kinda are always attacked. Anarchists are too. There’s a hundred-plus years of capitalist propaganda against any form of leftism, and damn near anyone on lemmy grew up completely fucking soaked in it. How could anybody who isn’t a classical liberal or actual fascist not feel attacked all the time when we are all attacked all the time.
The fediverse has a lot of communists around, a heaping handful of anarchists, and an absolutely endless hoard of unapologetic and often inarticulate liberals and actual fascists. Obviously, anarchists and communists have a ton of doctrinal differences about how a hypothetical society should be run, and on the value of individual vs organized action, but fuck am I tired of fucking capitalism and imperialism. It’s more fun and more productive to join hands and take the piss out of all these fucking fascists together.
I’d be a lot more patient helping grandma along if I was gonna get ten thousand dollars out of it
Looks like the media is really glossing over their own role in consent manufacturing
Oh wow you’re right I never stop to appreciate basic breathing when it’s all working fine
And I’ll form the head!
During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds
-Abolitionist Charles Sumner, encouraging a third party vote in the 1848 election