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Recommend them The Red Pen or Dessalines instead. Western Marxism is better not receiving any traction at all. Fucking dogmatist Piece of shit!

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[โ€“] Shakartah@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I had just watched his 1. Mai video recently and thought that his assessments were mostly correct with some very weird comments that I didn't totally understand at the time about Stalin. Don't get me wrong, I'm not someone who'll ever say anyone is perfect and I know how and why Stalin had real issues in decision making but it just felt off somehow.

I saw this post today and decided to watch the latest from the red pen about Western Marxism and omg, I feel like I got my eyes opened to weird patterns I have seen in the left the past year of me actually learning more about it. So much of the bullshit of "not actually socialist" is directly attributed to this group of people who say they want true revolution only if it means absolute socialism and refuse to engage or bring up any actual alternatives on how to get to it. They also despise Deng because ofc they do. I recently quoted Lenin to someone explaining a bit of economy and they completely refused my point, called me a Dengist (๐Ÿ’€ I never read a word from him) and then sent me 140 pages to read about a Western Marxist ideology flavour.

People should absolutely be talking more about this shit, not only about the idiots who disavow any voting as "participating in the same system" or "only fighting like that" (left-wing communists) but also the Western Marxists kind who honestly won't ever do anything if they'll just blame anything on currently existing socialist countries

Thx OP for bringing this up, I really needed that

[โ€“] opiumfree@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

baby marxists should focus on actual theorists such as Lemon and Meow

[โ€“] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

I am personally a big fan of Marxism-Lemonism-Meowism..

[โ€“] Mihr@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 days ago

I find it kind of ironic I used him as an audiobook narrator for Left Wing Communism yet dude is an ultra lmao.

[โ€“] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jup,pretty much. S4A lost the plot a while ago.

[โ€“] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Their ultra-leftism towards China is an unfortunate thing that I have noticed, and it is always annoying to see (I know that Maoism is not a purely western phenomenon and was in fact "synthesized" by Gonzalo and the Peruvian Maoists, but I swear, western Maoists just feel like armchairists).

Edit: Why did this get so many upvotes? I am a bit surprised haha.

[โ€“] pucker4676@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dessalines repo was a real eye opener. Can anyone link me to The Red Pen?

[โ€“] I_Voxgaard@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought this guy was a hoxhaist? wouldn't he stan Stalin's ussr at least?

[โ€“] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's the neat part. USSR doesn't exist anymore, so he's okay with that.

[โ€“] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Apparently Deng bad, US Green party good enough

[โ€“] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still can't believe that mf wanted to turn the Green Party into his Vanguard by taking over it! ๐Ÿ˜ญ MAGA ass behaviour!

Haha yup ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

While I know that this person is some ultra, what other channels would you recommend (besides the Red Pen and Dessalines)?

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