• Maturin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Based just on what's in this post and not knowing much history about it, I'm where you are right now too. If their concern is "tankie" includes unobjectionable stuff, we can at least give them the opportunity to give us some examples to make their point. If they can come up with stuff that we agree often gets the "tankie" label applied to it but is actually consistent with this instance's core principles, then we should hear them out. But if they are like "well, CCP is actually based," then no thanks.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Nobody there says modern Russia is "based"

        WRT the DPRK I highly recommend educating yourself on the Korean war starting with the podcast Blowback.

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          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            1 year ago

            Also @moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone referred i the "CCP" which is a racist reordering of the CPC to emphasize the Chinese over the Communist. The actual name of the party is Communist Party of China. This distinction is important because the communist movement is international and the emphasis being placed here on China serves only as a scare tactic and is also rooted in orientalism which is also a racist trope.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            even in the most sympathetic documentaries about the country, everyone’s lives revolve around the leader and the revolution almost a century ago.

            The revolution is fucking important, but I don't think people in some rural town have their lives revolve around the Kims and not, idk, their crops, their temple, local affairs.

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      • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        I have never seen a single person on Hexbear claim that Russia is communist, or "based", or even remotely socialist in any way under Putin. Please stop making accusations up out of thin air and putting words in other people's mouths, that's all we ask.

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