OurToothbrush

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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

The USSR famously subsidized and gave autonomy to the non Russian SSRs. Russofication was obviously a problem but much less of a problem than during the monarchy or the post union capitalist state. There is a reason why the non Russian SSRs voted at higher rates than the Russian SSR to stay in the USSR during the referendum before the illegitimate dissolution of the soviet union.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1920/11/13.htm

China famously exempted all ethnic minorities from the one child policy.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

A weak Russia wouldn't distract the flailing US empire's focus while China continues to overtake the US. China is absolutely interested in a strong Russia.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Socialism can work, Cuba has better life expectancy and more rights for women and lgbtq people than the US. Vietnam, Laos, and China all are moving forward gradually toward complete worker ownership of the means of production. The dprk has survived a 70 year siege from the global hegemon after it destroyed all their infrastructure and killed 20 percent of its civilian population.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I appreciate the support, I dont understand why what I said was controversial here

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Police reform has like a century of the same rhetoric without actually fixing the problem. You can read about it in old archives, and sounds hauntingly familiar to what you'd read from a modern reformist who opposes abolition

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Plenty of young people are like this too, my point is that transphobia is manufactured by capitalists to divide the proletariat and that's what they're doing right now.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Except I am anarcho-syndicalist and aggressively socially left-wing

If youre still specifying social and economic policy as seperate in this context than you've still got a lot more reading and political development to do as a leftist.

But I will never understand anyone that holds China or Russia in anything approaching high regard.

The soviet union defeated the Nazis, and China is defeating the US primarily through peaceful means Both massively improved quality of life and political rights. If those aren't things to be conditionally admirable about as a leftist than you seem a very strange leftist.

Edit: And, no. My comment didn’t come across as that. You obviously just wanted to read it as such.

Please explain how "reading socialist comments gives me diarrhia" should be taken.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Its not an age thing, it's a class thing

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Saying good things and saying bad things are different actually

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pretty sure it was made by a left wing gay man whos existence was considered offensive to conservatives

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 years ago

Good things and bad things are different actually

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I know the implication here is that "maoist lemmygrad tankies" are so gross they give you diarrhea but it really comes off as "I get stress diarrhia reading left wing content online" which isn't very flattering.

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