Title, I'm a leftist but after reading some things on lemmygrad and here it seems I might have been lied to all my life. I have talked with some people from Cuba and Venezuela (expats) that support the west narrative about poverty and mismanagement. I "believe" that Russia is attacking Ukraine for selfish reasons and that China censors access to foreign information using the Great Firewall, please prove me wrong. Furthermore, it ultimately depends who do you want to believe or there are hard facts from reputable sources that are simply a hidden by the mass media?

EDIT: Thanks everyone for your very civil responses. I'll answer as many as I can!

  • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    You have 2 posts, one that says that imperialism is good and one that says it's bad. What do you do? This is the realistic situation in most socialist experiments, and that's why most have implemented forms of censorship. The US puts astonishing levels of propaganda out to wealthy/petty bourgeois in anti or non-US-aligned countries to convince people to do a counterrevolution and invite US imperialism. If you want to protect your people from this destructive force, you censor and inform about the censored info. This is what China does.

    I'm just going to ignore your request of sources tbh, because you've likely just never investigated the resources that claim otherwise. Try to prove to yourself that your position is right first. If i come across mean, it's only because I'm not very excited to deal with educating on basic points for redditors that recently left and decided to try this place. Want more people always, but just not excited for this process and this exact question coming up 100 times this coming month

    • marderbot [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

      you censor and inform about the censored info

      Do you mean that the chinese government tells people what they have censored? how?

      If i come across mean

      No worries about that, I totally understand your reasons, I'll document myself looking around

      • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        I mean generally inform about the imperialism and the need for the great firewall. People there aren't dumb, they've seen the color revolutions around the world and even within China attempted. I'd prefer if my state censored books that support racism and imperialism, but they won't because they tacitly support it