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I will not defend Stalin and I will not defend the CCP. Just because capitalism isn't good doesn't mean that we have to glaze imperialist states. Ask Ukraine and the Baltic states how good they had it during the USSR; my point being that pro-USSR sentiments are largely just pro-Russian propaganda.

China is doing some good nowadays, but it still definitely has corruption. There are still billionaires, polluted air, capitalistic factories—which have terrible working conditions and sell cheaply made carcinogenic products, they're building AI data centres—some of which will boil the water temperature, bans citizens from accessing a lot of websites, etc.

I even decided to join a solidarity website and it mentioned f**cking Kim Jong-Un as a leftist figure ffs 💀. Literally, ANY North Korean defector will tell you how bad the North Korean regime is. The site had no mention of actual decent examples like Peter Kropotkin, Nelson Mandela, Thomas Sankara, Martin Luther King Jr, or even Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

Edit: did not know that Proudhon was a bigot. My bad; thanks immensely for telling me.

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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 1 week ago

I thought the title was a pun lol

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 61 points 1 week ago (10 children)

When we see a tankie, we laugh and point, then we move on. There's no talking them out of it. I grew up in the USSR, they don't believe my experience. Laugh then ignore.

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[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 59 points 1 week ago

MLs don't have much love for anarchists or any other sort of anti-authoritarians. Never had, looking back at history.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

My biggest growth with leftism was just learning to let other well meaning people be wrong. I'm wrong most of the time but inviting other people to dunk on me never really fixed any of my issues so it probably wouldn't help anyone else either.

There's plenty of online space for people who think capitalism has to go but maybe we shouldn't slob off mass murderers and imperialists to make that happen. It's not a worldview we actually have to fight other internet leftists for. Especially since nothing done online is praxis.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Literally, ANY North Korean defector will tell you how bad the North Korean regime is.

Okay, but to be fair, you're never going to hear positive things from a defector about the country they defected from.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It's not that the defector has negative things it's what those negative things are about.

There is a big difference between "healthcare system sucks" and "we are being taken, raped, tortured, and/or murdered for not loving dear leader."

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[–] emmy5482@quokk.au 43 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Those aren't leftist spaces. They're propaganda places for China etc

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[–] Comrade_Spood@quokk.au 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just an fyi, and speaking as an anarchist, I would NOT consider Proudhon a good example. Bro was a supporter of the Confederacy, as well as quite a few other very problematic stuff.

[–] lavenderbreton@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 week ago

Noted! Thanks.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (19 children)

Personally I don't consider authoritarians to be "leftist".

Tankies and libs are both right-wing just with different imperial branding.

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[–] ddplf@szmer.info 37 points 1 week ago

Tankies are only lefty on the economical spectrum, they are also full-blown authoritarian bootlickers. Fucking disgusting parasites if you ask me, sick in the head all of them.

[–] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

Lots of glazers yeah

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

also helps to remind those folks china and russia are capitalist.

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