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Seeing libs seethe about “too many tankies” is really funny. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by aidnic@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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On stuff outside of lemmygrad, we are receiving a lot of hate, especially by those who just moved from Reddit. Guess they lost their hidden privilege at Reddit as their rhetoric used to be almost universal over there, while genzedong and our other subs get censored and banned. And now, on lemmy, their stuff isn’t universal, as we are more prevalent here. Seems like they really want that hidden privilege back

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[–] QueenVigor@r196.club 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I don't think I'm a liberal. If you have any kind of empathy at all for a fellow human and look outside (in the US, at least), I really don't see how you can come to a conclusion that isn't "Holy shit capitalism causes so much harm and suffering we need to find to do something else.".

I don't know what flavor of leftist I am. I looked at anarchism for a bit and I ultimately found it really idealistic. No one seems to agree on what a "just hierarchy" is, and anarchists as a whole seems to argue for the complete annihilation of any hierarchy. I really wonder how they're going to run a hospital in an anarchist fashion.

But at the same time, I don't want to create something worse. I don't want to help build an authoritarian regime that paves over people's individuality and rights. I've seen the outcomes of that and I just can't agree with that.

I probably look dumb saying this but my preferred ideal society is pretty much Star Trek.

[–] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Hey, just want to say that I think you're on the right track! A lot of us felt this way before (at least I know I did for the most part), I would highly reccomend reading marxist theory, imo it really does answer a lot of these misgivings. If you don't want to read, there are a lot of audiobooks out there, or even just starting with beginner socialist videos is ok

[–] QueenVigor@r196.club 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I've read the communist manifesto in high school. Since those years, I've struggled with reading any kind of long-form text. It's something I'm trying to work on as it causes a lot of strife in day-to-day life.

I will gladly take audiobook recommendations.

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know much about audiobooks, but I recommend reading/listening to Principles of Commumism. It's, in my opinion, a better introductory text than the manifesto and also quite short. It's essentially a communism FAQ written by Engels.

[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

A link to the audio of Principles of Communism by Dessalines:

https://youtu.be/IS4cpvvLeYo

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