Y'all are the only instance making a honest effort to support Palestine. This is something i deeply appreciate. If y'all wanted to recommend reading to teach me about communism. I would appreciate that as well.
Y'all are the only instance making a honest effort to support Palestine. This is something i deeply appreciate. If y'all wanted to recommend reading to teach me about communism. I would appreciate that as well.
I see a lot of "learn more about communism" comments but we should also throw in some "unlearn anticommunist propaganda" comments. A lot of outright false information is spread about actually existing socialist states of the past and present. There are valid criticisms of all these states but it's hard to separate them from the century of slander capitalists have written.
tbh my main source for this is the hexbear search bar lol. I put in the topic I'm interested in and then sift through the comments and posts that come up. People are well read here and can link interesting sources I would struggle to find on my own, although I've gotten a lot better at researching this stuff over the years.
this is genius, thank you so much
You got it right here. The biggest stumbling block I've noticed is western chauvinism. People get into leftist theory all the time. They can recite Marx backwards and forwards. What stops them is a core belief that non-western people are backwards and that foreign attempts to create socialism all did it incorrectly. They'll throw around words like authoritarian, tyranny, they'll refuse to acknowledge the accomplishments of foreign socialist movements. Parenti is really good on this one.
So that's the thing people should focus on. We need international solidarity immediately. We need an understanding from first worlders that they live in imperialist countries that have boots on the necks of other nations, including foreign socialist nations. Everyone really needs to unlearn the idea that communism only works when it fits their cultural, racial, or linguistic biases. Without an understanding of international history, you just get ultra-leftists, armchair socialists, or people who distort/mangle the name of anarchists.