Apparently I got perma banned from asking a question about anti capitalist business. Cowards I say.

  • DamarcusArt
    27·
    10 months ago

    communism101 on reddit is run by western ultras and cultists. It’s a rite of passage for any socialist on the platform to get banned there.

    • CriticalResist8A
      16·
      10 months ago

      It truly is, I got my ban there in like the first 6 months I was a communist. Then I moved on to better communities.

    • ComradeFromSpace
      10·
      10 months ago

      I’ve seen the term ultras on here, but I am rather new to this community. Would someone mind giving me a definition of what an ultra is in this context? Thanks!

      • HaSch
        12·
        10 months ago

        An ultra is a communist who is obsessed with strict adherence to previous communist theory rather than considering what is the sensible thing to do in a given real-world economic circumstance. You may also know them as a “book worshipper” or “that one guy who legally isn’t allowed within 200 metres of a DnD party”

          • DamarcusArt
            10·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, that’s a good analogy. They’re people who emphasise idealism and perfectionism rather than messy, imperfect real world results. They tend to decry existing or past socialist projects for not being “pure” enough and for having issues and problems, like any nation would.

            It’s quite common in western leftist spaces as it is a way to be “socialist” without actually needing to unlearn a bunch of lies about socialist nations taught to people from a young age.

            We mock them because they ultimately spend all their time “planning” a “perfect” revolution that will never come to pass, as if they actually tried to put their ideas into practice, they would meet messy reality and no longer have everything be perfect. So they claim to be against the capitalist status quo while doing nothing to actually try and change it. They’re as old as communism itself. A core idea of communist thought is “materialism” as opposed to “idealism.” When our ideas conflict with reality, our ideas need to change to match reality. Ultras refuse to do this in order to keep their ideals “pure.”

            Sorry for the semi-lecture, especially if some of it is stuff you already know.

            • ComradeFromSpace
              4·
              10 months ago

              Oh no I appreciate the details, and yeah that is kinda dumb. Isn’t one of the tentants of communism that (I just woke up and smoked a bowl so sorry if I’m mis remembering WHO said it exactly) I’m pretty sure Lenin himself talked on was that the communist movement, revolution, and following state will look different in every region as geography, culture, and the current and future evolving political climate all create different conditions that we would have to find new and working solutions too. I’m an advocate of “Yeah shit’s gunna get messy sometimes, so it’s best to accept that, but to try and experiment with different policies in different parts of the region to see what works best both for the people, and for staying stable and sustainable, and we should strive to TRY different things as communists so we can find the things, whether structure of labor or production to ecological protections, what WORKS best for everyone.” It seems wild to me that some people think we can just rely completely on theory. Yes its VERY important, but so is real world and practical experience, shit happens that no one expects and you gotta find solutions. That’s just life.

      • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        If you’re familiar with the MAGA (Make America Great Movement) movement in the USA, its kinda like that but with past Socialist/Communist countries as their base.

  • RedClouds
    27·
    10 months ago

    I got perma banned for telling someone who asked what they could do today, that they could organize unions or coops, as that is at least something you can do besides just read theory (they were already doing that).

    • lil_tank
      9·
      10 months ago

      You should obviously have told them to go live in the forest and terrorise the local populace

      • DamarcusArt
        3·
        10 months ago

        Acktually sweaty, they are revolutionary taxes that are vital for the PPW? The local peasants owning things is bourgeoisie decadence (so we must take them off their hands so they can avoid the temptation. Thankfully we are Pure enough that we are immune to temptation and can use these goods as we see fit. You’d understand if you would just read chapters 34-178 of our group’s manifesto.)

    • raccoon_t_marxmallow
      2·
      10 months ago

      I got perma-banned today because someone asked what it would take to organize a communist revolution in the imperial core and I responded, “a lot of work and a good bit of luck.”

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
    21·
    10 months ago

    I am not a fan of the communist communities on Reddit. I got banned from one because I used Wikipedia to source dates and was told it’s too much of a liberal platform to cite.

  • PostingInternational
    191·
    10 months ago

    I once posted a slightly lib article on how an idiot ancap CEO of Sears ran the company to the ground with dumb libertarian ideas and also some Chomsky’s critique of US imperialism. Got perma banned the next day…

    I mean, I thought we should be intelligent enough to read lib sources if they offer some kind of valuable insight and just filter out useless lib opinions, bad takes ourselves…I guess I was wrong lol.

  • Mzuark
    16·
    10 months ago

    Communism101 when Communism102 walks in:

      • ghost_of_faso2
        17·
        10 months ago

        Maoists who dont shit on deng I can rock with, Maoists who think china is a neo-liberal country and ignore Chinas current prosperity I disavow.

  • Cysioland
    8·
    10 months ago

    got autobanned back when “Transcribers of Reddit” was running, got autobanned for transcribing a post in /r/engrish

  • stasis
    5·
    10 months ago

    who isn’t banned from communism101 the moment they step into that sub?

  • Life2Space
    1·
    10 months ago

    Reactionaries understand China better than ultras—pathetic!