Cowbee

DMs probably work best.

The best place to have that convo certainly isn't a .world thread. The least spicy way of putting it is that Marxists defend AES.

Different AES countries have different stances, the DPRK has always recognized Palestine and never Israel as an example. There's a difference between just following AES and coming up with solutions to problems.

I'm a Marxist-Leninist, I've read over 2 dozen books on Marxism, you can check my comment history if you want. The lead developers of Lemmy are Communists.

Also, the Nordics are Social Democracies, not Socialist.

Please show any sources for this garbage, these are all bannable offenses on Grad, Hexbear, and .ml.

This is false. Anti-AES anarchists are banned, because sectarianism is banned.

I've yet to see someone actually mean anything other than "Marxist" when they describe what a tankie is, it's similar to the word "woke." It's nebulous and ill-defined, so now it just means "Marxist," and thus is a left-punching term.

This is correct, though, liberals are right wing and Lemmy.world is a liberal instance.

Lemmy.world? Left? The mods are anti-Marxist and defederated from the Marxist instances, they are liberal.

.world runs into issues because it's overwhelmingly liberal and the mods are anti-Marxist on a platform built by Communists and dominated by leftists in general. They also defederated from the major Marxist instances. Lemmy.world is largely a replication of Reddit as well, so people leaving Reddit also don't necessarily want that either.

It's also by far the largest instance, not necessarily in a good way. It tends to dominate the fediverse and thus their mods and admins have an outsized voice, even if federation helps combat that issue.

Plenty of people like Lemmy.world, you'll get different answers if you asked on another community like Lemmy.ml's AskLemmy.

Sorry, can't respond here fully, the moderators here censor comments with facts that don't fit their anti-Marxist narrarive. I never denied that the Great Chinese Famine existed either, I pointed out that famine was common in China pre-Mao and during Mao there was one final famine, because of improvements in agriculture that happened under Mao. Blaming Mao for the immense poverty and brutality of existing conditions pre-Mao that he couldn't possibly fix overnight is silly.

From the article I linked (and you haven't read evidently despite my insistence):

"This argument is just silly as Mao inherited one of the poorest countries in the world. Mao came to power in 1949. Between 1900–1948 the country was engulfed in poverty and famine. Let us simply take a look at few. Here I will simply go off the Wikipedia page List of famines in China and if the body count is within a range I will take the middle of the range.

1907 Great Qing Famine — 25 million dead
1920–1921 North China famine — 0.5 million dead
1928–1930 Chinese famine — 3 million dead
1936–1937 famine — 5 million dead
1942–1943 famine — 2.5 million dead

Total = 36 million dead from famine between 1900–1948

If we divide this number by the amount of years, fourty-nine, we find that about 735,000 people died of famine per year on average before Mao even came to power."

Sort of. The PRC constantly takes the least confrontational stance possible. The correct Marxist take is the One State Solution, but the PRC will always take diplomacy over conflict.