It's pretty simple. Most MLs critically support ML states. Almost all of them, for example, hate that Stalin banned homosexuality. At the same time, they can also appreciate how both Mao and the USSR doubled life expectancy and ended famine. By metrics, both states improved rapidly.

As an Anarchist, you can learn a lot from MLs on how to actually get stuff done. Anarchism is a beautiful dream currently, outside of fringe cases like Revolutionary Catalonia it hasn't actually existed to a meaningful extent. I'm not saying you should become an ML, but MLs typically take their routes because it gets results, even if the Means aren't pretty at all.

I'm saying this as a non-ML Marxist.

Sankara was a supporter of the USSR and a Marxist-Leninist. Sankara isn't a non-tankie just because he didn't live to the tankie phase, he was always acting as an ML. If that makes you sympathize more with MLs, or makes you hate Sankara as you do tankies, either is your choice.

Is whether or not something is "authoritarian" to you simply determined by vibes, or is it actual actions? By all measures, you should hate Sankara as well. Be consistent.

And Corporations aren't?

Why would anyone mention Trump in a positive light, except that he's funny?

Nazis go beyond hate. That's an absolutely vile position to hold, and trying to win them over with empathy isn't how you do it, because they are past empathy. Fascism must be combatted thoroughly and completely.

Lemmy was literally made by Communists.

What was your proposed solution to far-right genocidal extremism?

Example? Either of bullshit or non-bullshit.

But we shouldn't, Nordic style Social Democracy is still experiencing rises in disparity and reliance on both US military presence as a peacemaker and economic Imperialism to subsidize costs.

"Haha, I can't read"

Marxists do hate Markets though, that's part of why Marx advocated for abolition of Money. Over time, of course, but that's the entire point of Labor-Vouchers.

Certainly, at least this early. It's fine for smaller, niche instances, but for larger instances it risks Lemmy itself.

What kind of instance is lemm.ee trying to be? One for as many people as possible, one to appeal to a niche of people, or somewhere in the middle? I joined because I thought it was more of a generalist instance a la the first example, but if it's trying to meet somewhere in the middle or towards a niche, I don't think it's serving the purpose I signed up for, so I would rather find a new instance that doesn't defederate so easily.

In what way is making a kinda-funny Marxism joke indicative of being a bot? The previous comment to mine references Dialectics, because the convo is just "A, B, sassy A, sassy B. I merely tied in Historical Materialism, Marx's grand Dialectical theory, to overplay the goofy small back and forth.

Are you sure you're not a bot? Do you have free will?

Truly the pinnacle of Historical Materialism.

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