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If your first instinct as a westerner is to criticize and lecture 3rd world communist movements, instead of learning from their successes, then you have internalized the patronizing arrogance of the colonial system you claim to oppose.
I remember watching a documentary about North Korea and one of the guides was talking about how people in NK and Asia more broadly don’t necessarily want to live under the same liberal-democratic capitalist system that the west tries to impress on them.
How arrogant are we to act like we have it all figured out and that countries outside of Europe and North America are backwards shitholes?
There is absolutely a discussion to be had here.
Of course people should be allowed to have their own government setups and authorities. It would be wrong to assume that we in the west have it all figured out.
However there are still questions of fundamental human rights. In many places of the world a woman can legally be raped, it’s the woman’s responsibility to always have a male relative with them. If we were to ask women what they thought about it they would probably say that there is no problem with it, that’s just how it works. These women have been so indoctrinated by it that they don’t question it.
We could also use slavery in America as an example. Many slaves probably accepted the argument that they had a better living standard as slaves, or some other argument that made them accept the status quo. Should Europe just have accepted that that is the way life goes over there?
Where does the line go between fundamental human rights and respecting other ways of life go? Western fundamental rights such as equal rights, right to a trial, right to life, etc. are just that, western.
Liberals desperately need to read Losurdo - Liberalism, a counter-history.
Even the liberal equality before the law, (ie, the illegality for the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges and beg for food) was denied to colonized peoples and peoples of colonial origin.
Every one of your liberal ideologues was extremely racist, and didn’t think colonized peoples deserved any of the rights they proclaimed for the white community. John Locke, and the first 5 or so US presidents owned slaves. Tocqueville pushed for the decimation of civilians in Algeria at the hands of the french imperialists, and wrote a book on the US that ignored slavery, lynchings, and native eviction. There are too many more cases to cover.
Western liberals who think they are entirely objective and free of bias really struggle to get to grips with how much of their world view is just patronizing racist chauvinism.
Also I’m not even sure why liberals are permitted on lemmy. Send them and their disgusting violent ideology back to corporate media.
They don’t have any problems with US corporate media’s ideology. They’re just mad reddit took away their app treats.
oh I wonder why this is near the top of the active feed even though there’s only 6 commentsclicks the Federation button to see the post on its home page
I’m so glad I don’t let lemmy.nazi federate to my server lol
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The current McCarthyite tactic is to use “tankie” and “authoritarian” as the code-words for anyone who dares to oppose US / NATO hegemony and align themselves with the anti-colonial projects. Only the US-aligned countries are allowed to be “authentic marxists”, and everyone else is labeled a tankie.
These people have no concept that everyone from Paul Robeson to even MLK was called a “dirty commie”, or that the US is drone bombing like 8 countries in the middle east and north africa as we speak.
Fuck dronies.
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to most modern “leftists” olof palme would be a tankie.
I’m glad I’m on db0 and can still see posts from .ml, hexbear, and .world.
I can get a gauge of what people from all servers are saying, and I’m finding the gist that what you’re saying is correct.
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lenin
Would have been bad enough to specifically name Engels, but Lenin? hahaha oh wow
I don’t know why they even left Reddit. Were they really that mad about app development?
I am not only on .world (actually started out there and moved over here), but yeah, for me that was the last straw. That official app is just an affront.
Reddit is not even “liberal” anymore. The people on the conservative sub will say that it is but its been shifting rightward for years. There are a lot of people getting permad over things that in the past would have had broad agreement.
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It’s shifting from center “left” to libertarian right to match up with the ceo, and pretty soon will just be as bad as Twitter
Ex Can’t be critical of musk or any of his terrible products, that earns a ban
reddit already censored all the times I said “elongated muskrat”
Most of us have started from the default programming. I didn’t get a lot of what I get today when I moved from Reddit. I know it can feel shitty to keep repeating the same things and make the same arguments over and over again but that’s the process of teaching.
Yep, seems over time stances do change.
I know it can feel shitty to keep repeating the same things and make the same arguments over and over again but that’s the process of teaching.
For what it’s worth, it’s important to have ways to do this efficiently, like linking to other resources or having copypastas. Otherwise the infinite influx of ignorant noobs will eventually cause burnout or just waste too much time.
Depends which wave of newcomers. Some in more recent migrations just got banned for criticizing musk or endorsing Luigism, which is pretty milquetoast stuff any old lib can do.
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Have fun, .ml!
jerbora doesn’t support emoji :kitti-cri:
Yea, I just open the comment in browser if I need to. Easier than googling the image and pasting it in.
Lemmy libs in this thread showing they have an aversion to reading
there are libs on Lemmy?
Check on some .world comms and let us know what you find. Hint: it’s libs as far as the thumb can scroll.
Almost every community on every instance of Lemmy is a liberal circlejerk lol
Wait lol you’re a MAGA account but you accidentally came to the right conclusion? JDPON Don does it again.
it’s always hilarious when conservatives are right on accident and they don’t even know why
If you are offended by this, you might be incapable of self-reflection
Imagine getting offended by this instead of just being anti-colonialist
Why do white crackers have to be so set in their ways?
Simply put: maintaining the status quo is prerequisite to their comfortable living.
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No probs comrade, thx!
I wrote my thesis about how we can learn from Cuba’s green farming movements (because they were essentially locked out of capitalism) and was criticized for it.
I am hard pressed to think of any Americans older than twenty five that I have ever met IRL that was truly opposed to colonialism. High-schoolers and college students; sure. That’s about it though.
EDIT: To be clear, I am not defending colonialism. I just don’t think most Americans understand or think about its impact. Out of sight. Out of mind.
I have a better one:
About all politics. No exceptions.
Signed: Brazilian.
I like how the circle also looks like America and Hawaii and parts of Canada are not included lol
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The capitalism can not spread where the ice flows and the coconuts reign.
Is that a whale
The “Shut the Fuck Up Gringo” whale.
My only complaint is that the Baltics aren’t included in the Shut The Fuck Up Zone.
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What are some succesful 3rd world communist movements? Asking for a friend
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The obvious one is China. But if you wanna learn a little something, read about Sankara. If you want a whole book of histories of the third world national liberation and socialist movements, read The Darker Nations by Vijay Prashad.
According to some theories, China.
Man I’m just here for the memes :(
The lemmy.world version of this community has politcs banned
This l find a general attitude among the Westerners.
trying to remember the whiteboard in that show
