• wombat [none/use name]
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    11 hours ago

    the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

      • isa41@lemm.ee
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        7 hours ago

        Unfortunately Mao was an idiot surrounded by sycophants who killed more of his countrymen through incompetent policies than Stalin did with his purges.

        Unfortunately burgerlanders are idiots surrounded by propaganda made by the empire that killed more people the world over through cruelty and policies of greed and exploitation than even Churchill did with his genocide of Indians.

        You are an idiot. Mao was a brilliant and resolute (though imperfect) revolutionary that saved millions of people, pulled even more out of poverty, and set China on the path to becoming the superpower that it is. Surrounded by sycophants? lol, he famously called on the people not to blindly accept party bureaucracy and to fight injustice even when it means fighting his own communist party.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        9 hours ago

        People always say Mao killed so many people, but when pressed for how they just say "famine". If that's the standard, how many people does world capitalism kill? Don't let perfect be the enemy of good🤷‍♂️

    • MaeBorowski [she/her]
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      10 hours ago

      In addition to what MattsAlt said, the people in possession of those things still rely on you and me to meet all their wants and needs. So a crucial first step before they become edible is for us to stop meeting their wants and needs. Exactly who "possesses" what starts to become a little more ambiguous when that happens.

    • propter_hog [any, any]
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      8 hours ago

      You should watch the movie Ants, it's an amazing example of why this line of reasoning doesn't hold water.

    • MattsAlt [comrade/them]
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      13 hours ago

      Don't have to own em, just have to get the people paid to operate them on the right side

    • Signtist@lemm.ee
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      11 hours ago

      This is honestly the reason why I don't think we can achieve a successful uprising anymore. Probably not a nuke, but drones definitely could and would be used to tear through even the largest of mobs if they formed today. Marie Antoinette would be happily eating her cake watching her people get mowed down by autonomous turrets if the French revolution happened today.