Post #2346872

2025-12-30 14:27 UTC

I'd honestly respect people more if they just admitted to being social democrats or liberals instead of trying to be this halfway house thing of socialism/communism with liberal democratic characteristics. Very common here on Lemmy. As far as I can tell, the tankies are the ones whose ideas line up most closely with real world communist organisations. I can't think of any serious communist parties that are anti-China, anti-USSR, pro-NATO, and so on.

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@happybadger@hexbear.net 2025-12-30 14:54

It's Baby's First Thought Terminating Cliche. I can't hear it without remembering that perennial tweet about someone's grandfather being the most steadfast anticommunist they know because he's illiterate and communist propaganda could never reach him.

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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2025-12-30 14:40

MLM/Maoist parties like the Naxalites tend to be anti-China and still "serious" in that they wage protracted people's war, organize in real life, etc, but they are generally pro-USSR (Stalin era) and anti-NATO. I disagree with them theoretically but I will acknowledge that some of them have seen some degree of success when the material conditions of the countries they operate in are more agrarian (and as a result have more similarities with China's revolution, the closer they are the greater the degree of success). ML parties generally agree with what you said, ie pro-USSR, pro-PRC, anti-NATO.

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@Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 2025-12-31 21:25

Chomkyism ruined the single digit probability the USA had fir a revolution.

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