Post #614966

2026-03-10 14:15 UTC

Marxists-Leninists (as in, the ML in lemmy.ml) use the term “liberals” to describe anyone living under a Western capitalist system. Especially MLs on Lemmy, they consider any username not from the Tankie Triad to be liberal (or anarchist, which is somehow worse).

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@Quadhammer@lemmy.world 2026-03-10 14:19

It’s really dumb, possibly even a psyop. Because according to militant left the true communism has never been achieved, therefore everyone on earth is under a western capitalist system

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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-03-10 14:23

No? I’m an ML and I live in a capitalist country. Further, liberals are absolutely worse than anarchists.

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@QinShiHuangsShlong__dup_67153@lemmy.ml 2026-03-10 14:26

“liberal” denotes adherence to bourgeois democracy and capitalist property relations, (pro bourgeois democracy and private property) The critique of certain “anarchists” is that they guise reactionary politics in radical language, which aids capitalism.

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@ShinkanTrain__dup_10204@lemmy.ml 2026-03-10 14:39

Profoundly wrong statement. First because that’s not how Marxist-Leninists use the word ‘liberal’, that’s a definition you just made up while ignoring decades of literature. Second, because it implies that is not what the word actually means to literally everyone, not just Leninists or even just socialists, everywhere on the planet with the exception of the US liberal duopoly. Third, because it implies people are calling you a liberal because of your instance, and not because of your shit takes.

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