Lemmy is full of people with strong political convictions. That’s why they took the leap to move here, a niche and confusing platform. But since most users came from reddit, that means we got a thousand passionate libs for every one communist.

I’m not sure that there’s a bigger ratio of libs:commies on lemmy. I think that our libs are just more ardent because if they were passive they wouldn’t be here in the first place.

I don’t think there are a higher proportion of liberals on Lemmy.

I imagine that many more people browse by “all” on Lemmy than on Reddit. If so, then the only people seeing r/latestagecapitalism posts are those who explicitly want to see them, whereas on Lemmy, lots of liberals see anti-liberal posts from anti-liberal communities.

I think the libs on reddit are held back by the masses of conservatives and outright fascists.

The interesting dialectic that opens up exploring this is that we do have some views in common with “realists” which reminds me of glen diesen who has very based takes at times and complete dogshit on others.

This also speaks to lenins favor of dealing with all kinds of people during the revolution. Fanon also shows this in his book when anticolonial struggle starts with nationalism, not leftism. The nationalist movement needs to remove the hand puppeting the state, then the state will become ultranationalist and then it needs to be corrected to the left, not vice versa.

Without saying this is what has to be done: it lends itself to the notion of MLs to have to move in a nationalist direction first (remove nato, stop intervening, stop accepting any outside influence), then struggle only against inside enemies to correct towards socialism.

This would also explain why socialists cant gain ground in vassal states and why they turn nationalist. That may be the correct direction at first. Our goal should probably be to destroy any connection between capitalist states first, alienate them and then move them.