MarxMadness @ MarxMadness @lemmygrad.ml

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Brian Thompson killed tons of people in cold blood. There's basically zero chance he would have seen any justice for that in the foreseeable future. Taking him out was no different than taking out an active shooter.

It is a morally greater objective to turn these people around, and more practically achievable, than undermining its opponent.

The task is to build a mass movement to the left of Democrats. Are you going to have better luck building that out of the many Democrats who are disillusioned by the ineffectiveness of their party? Or is it going to be easier to bring in the folks cheering seig heils at Republican events?

The DNC cannot be entered and changed into a working class party because they too get their base from the bourgeoisie.

I think this is too pessimistic, especially in light of how bad all other options are for the left. Party bases change -- Democrats used to be a lot closer to the working class, and (decades ago) delivered major policy improvements. With a lot of jobs re-proletarianizing, who's to say the party base can't shift back?

The biggest barrier to such a change is campaign donations, of course. But Bernie showed you can fund even a major presidential campaign through small donors, and we're also at the point where corporate Dems have more money than they can effectively use (see the Harris campaign).

ethnic Russians’ history of ethnic cleansing

Maybe because "the Russian brainpan is predisposed to genocide" is self-evidently racist and nonsensical.

Conscription for popular wars doesn't get to the point Ukraine is at. The U.S. drafted soldiers in WWII without the situation deteriorating to this point, for example. Then when they tried that for an unpopular war (Vietnam) it created all sorts of problems and the draft was scrapped.

Cool campfire story

The communist party however has already covered up

The conspiracy theory here is this.

What communist country did you personally live under, lemmy user in 2025?

I'll also point out that tons of people all over the world are ignorant of how their own countries operate.

China is an extremely rapidly developing country that was as poor as Haiti is today 100 years ago.

I'd say 75, at the end of the Civil War. The firsthand descriptions of rural China from Fanshen come from around that period and are basically late-feudal, but ravaged by a few decades of major wars.

I’m American they would have us believe that the average Chinese citizen is living one step of from a factory slave.

Download RedNote and see for yourself. You'll never get a full picture from social media alone, but you can see a lot.

you can have a bit of capitalism and a bit of socialism in a healthy mix of free trade economy with regulations

I used to believe this, and I also used to argue against socialists on the same exact grounds.

At some point I noticed that all those nice little bits of socialism that rounded off the edges of capitalism kept getting rolled back. Then I read more about how those safety nets were put up in the first place -- I found out they were all bought with the blood of people much farther left than me, and I saw how violently capitalists opposed them. I found that a lot of the reason those safety nets were so nice for so long in the Global North was that our countries were slaughtering people by the millions (again, a lot of leftists) elsewhere in the world to prop capitalism up.

At that point I stopped just nodding along to all the campfire stories about socialist countries. Maybe, like my standard U.S. education had missed a lot of pretty important things about how capitalism works, it had similarly missed some important things about how socialism works.

That's good work for a lot of reasons, but there's a world of difference between "open source and theoretically DIY" and it being anywhere near realistic for everyone to actually do it themselves.

It's good that I have access to advanced technology without having to have learned how to build it from the ground up. That's the whole point of civilization -- doing more together than we could do apart.

Regarding gulags, it’s the same as telling me about concentration camps built by the Nazis.

From a researcher who actually examined Soviet archives after the fall of the USSR in the 90s (PDF link, see pg. 1041):

Even in the terrible year of 1937, 44.4 percent of the GULAG labor camp population on January 1 was freed during the course of the year.

These weren't death camps, these were prisons. You can read elsewhere in the same article about how most of the people in them had been convicted of non-political crimes every country in the world prosecutes. Just like in many other countries, people would serve their sentence and be released.

The article also notes how the vast majority of mortality in the Soviet prison system was attributable to the hardships imposed by WWII (also from pg. 1041):

More than half of all GULAG deaths in the entire 1934-1953 period occurred in 1941-1943, mostly from malnutrition.

Comparing this to the Nazi system that was directly designed to exterminate people is no more than roundabout Nazi apologia.

The USSR’s implementation of communism was so bad, it’s become cliche.

So bad that after the fall of the Soviet Union, its former republics all had an immediate, sustained downturn in their quality of life, and a corresponding uptick in mortality.

selling lumber and steel to Nazi Germany in the 1930s

Every future member of the Allies did this.

What really separated the Soviets from other future Allies is it approaching Britain and France on the eve of the war with an offer of an anti-Nazi pact. imagine if those countries were not so rabidly anti-communist that they agreed to this.

As far as civil rights that women do not have (or are being taken away), all three articles only speak of abortions. Men already can’t have abortions.

You really thought you were cooking here, didn't you?

Moat people still don't connect arming extremists in Afghanistan in the 80s to 9/11. There's an obvious risk of a bunch of Azov Nazis turning to terrorism against former allies who "stabbed them in the back" here, too.

You think China peacefully reintegrating Hong Kong from British rule is... Chinese imperialism?

How are you defining mass parties?

When did they stop working, and why?

Your idea is that... any politics with roots in the 20th century are irrelevant?

When exactly did everyone on the planet wake up and decide history doesn't matter?