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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Its .ml i wouldn't worry about it too much, sure there are many decent people there, but there are some people there with shit takes
Is it because it's a primarily Marxist-Leninist hub? - and this is coming from someone who supports socialism, and is looking to study a bit more on that
It's because the mods and admins are tankies. Though AFAIK that's a very common issue with marxist-leninists.
What about the Marxist-Leninists are aren't really "tankies" and DOESN'T support how Stalin handled the USSR and his power as the General Secretary of the CPSU (too much bureaucracy and all)?
From what I've experienced is that anything that is critical of russia/china is against the narrative. I'm a socialist too, but because I am critical of russia/china, I get blocked and banned when I make comments. I am also critical of the USA, Canada, europe, etc but i still get called a shit lib lol.
I support the ideas of socialism, but I am critical of the more bureaucratic elements of forms such as Marxism-Leninism (a synthesis of Marx and Lenin's ideas) and such. I am NOT against already-existing-socialist countries - that said, if the DPRK and China are any indication, a socialist country can have multiple parties, as long as they're like-minded and they work together in one unified "vanguard coalition".
I do think that these parties should compete like in bourgeois liberal systems though.
Well you're in the right instance for thaf. This is your chance to check out anarchism 😅
It seems that the kind of discussion OP wants would be well aligned with the spirit of !actualsocialism101@lemmy.dbzer0.com. However, the community unfortunately seems to be inactive.
What about syndicalism, Marxism-De Leonism or council communism?
What about them?
I'm just wondering if you're open to these forms of Marxism here in this Lemmy instance - from what I understand, Hexbear and Lemmy.ml are strictly Marxist-Leninist hub, and you're an anarchist.
Hexbear is a leftist unity sub, not strictly ML.
So it's open to left-libertarians?
Nope. Just ask anyone here who's said Stalin wasn't perfect.
I just noticed your username is "Eugene V. Debs' Ghost" - do you prefer Daniel De Leon and Eugene V. Debs?
I only picked the dudes name because he is a old enough dead socialist where it's funny that I say things as his ghost. I have moderate respect for him but I don't care too much for him. Or anyone who's dead.
By the way i think your bit of where anytime a .ml person is weird to you, you just reply the same thing is actually funny. And the fact it angers them when they repeat "read theory" as a mantra is funnier.
Well I am trying to study socialist/communist theory - Cowbee's method of taking each paragraph and boiling them into simple terms (or to your own words) is pretty good for a beginner, but does that technically count as studying theory?
Probably, I don't care that much. Cowbee is the only major player from .ml I am able to enjoy, because he doesn't belittle people.
But I don't care about theory, I care about people doing things. Most of the diehard AuthComs would be gulaged for not obeying the new guy in charge, while pretending they are setting up that world as they shitpost online and just remain indoors.
Well I really like Cowbee's method. Oh and are you more of a council communist?
I'm vaguely anarchist, I respect Marx's original works. I just don't want a state to decide things in the daily lives of people.
So you're more of an Orthodox Marxist?
One thing I want to mention, it isn't "my" method, just the way I do things. I lift heavily from Nadezhda Krupskaya's General Rules for Independent Study.
So what's your actual study method?
I didn't invent any, I told you what I do.
This instance is not that strict with our members, so long as you follow our rules.