Not sure why I got banned in the first place, but I think it was from linking to an episode of The Dollop. IIRC I got banned from /r/communism101 for saying something slightly positive about Gorbachev (sure, go ahead a call me a lib -- it was like 3 years ago). Either way it seems that the mods think that communism began and ended with Lenin.

I was going to keep poking them but Matt said something on his cushvlog about how trolling isn't praxis and I felt called out

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    This is the sort of sectarian bullshit that is holding us back.

    • asaharyev [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yep. People will say "online isn't real life," but you bet your ass there are AFK leftists out there who act exactly like this, too. Frustrating horseshit.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        It's less prevalent in IRL activist circles (in my personal experience anyway) but a lot of leftists need spaces like this to come to for discussion to learn more about theory as communist literature is scarce in a lot of the US (not sure how bad it is in other countries), if we're not welcoming to less well read comrades and even dismiss people trying to learn as in that screenshot we're never gonna grow our cause. I was mostly stumbling blindly through Breadtube stuff till I came on Chapo, and now I get mad at libs IRL and constantly find myself thinking how the fuck am I more learned on this than people with actual degrees in economics and shit.