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"As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say that we're tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We also know that when the people understand, they cannot but follow us. In any case, we, the people, have no enemies when it comes to peoples. Our only enemies are the imperialist regimes and organizations." Thomas Sankara, 1985


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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They assumed you were using "Marxist" as a perjorative. Just shows how deep the anti-communist indoctrination runs.

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thomas Sankara slammed as a Marxist-Leninist

[–] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 months ago

you don't understand, tankie...sankara made good things, and socialism is bad, so sankara couldn't have been socialist!

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not trying to be a spelling pedant, I just genuinely want to share how much joy I'm getting out of Thomas Shankara

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[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 months ago
[–] ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 2 months ago

Americans dont learn anything about communism. The average american would likely say that fascism is communism and oligarchy while also being dictatorship -- I believe this accounts for a large number of Americans on the two imperialist camps that have a monopoly on political narratives. Marxism is never taught to students, only those who have enough curiosity in an anti-intellectual culture will learn of it in their own pursuit. In that pursuit they must battle the waves of trotskyists, leftcomms, and ancaps who constantly distort the definition making it unlikely that they, who have not been taught how to think critically, will be able to discern which definition is correct with so many conflicting narratives. They have endless contradictions in their ideology, no coherent definitions, and a bunch of conflicting capitalist narratives competing for their limited attention.

[–] SNAFU@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 months ago

Your average Proletarian here knows little to nothing about Socialism, Communism, Marxism, etc; though of no fault of their own. Their class consciousness, however repressed, is still exhibited; there is just no revolutionary, especially in the far-flung isolated areas, to guide them there. So you get this, lol

[–] Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Very good chance that's a bot trying to discredit Marxism-Leninism while still maintaining a positive appearance as far as their "liberation" aesthetic is concerned.

They don't want more people looking into Marxism Leninism and adopting it.

[–] AngeryProle@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

To answer the question - somewhere between a developmentally disabled dog, and an actual, literal rock.