• recapitated@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    It hasn’t really been my experience here. Yeah there is some.

    Have you tried being less aimless at what you subscribe here? Do you come here because you want to connect with information, or just mindlessly doom scroll and consume?

    If you’re not intentional about your social media tools, you will have a bad time.

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      8 hours ago

      Lemmy.world is defederated from the major Marxist instances, so that filters out a lot of discussion about Socialism.

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        Actually I find that it allows more range of Socialism strains to be discussed. A lot of Marxists tend to look rather poorly at any mixed Socialism blends as either heretical or as liminal states with Communism as a complete end goal instead of being legitimate in their own right.

        Where ever Marxism tends to particularly flourish erasure of a lot of other Socialist philosophy tends to be the norm. Socialism is a big range of different veiws of how publicly held and private property domains intermix with a lot of foundational philosophy some of which pre-dates or were contemporaries of Marx. Marx may have coined the term but it’s important to remember that when he was writing his work there were specific peers in his feild that some of it was directed at who he was sort of in agreement with and sort of not. Many wholeheartedly adopted his term for the broad stroke of their own philosophy even though they would later be at loggerheads about details. Later in life Marx really did not get along with other prominent Socialists of his era. Those who subscribe very heavily to his text tend to follow his tradition of being very dismissive of other Socialist strains and rather combative because the text is very fiery and segments well into calls for violence

        If one wants to go talk Marxism the other instances are always there and are generally better venues. It’s valuable to have spaces that have differences so that other schools of political thought have air. As far as Marxists here go, since having a group that usually denies others the very words they use to self identify by, demanding they be called illegitimate, sucks all the air from the room they are generally not particularly welcome in the space unless they demonstrate they can play nice with others.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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          A lot of Marxists tend to look rather poorly at any mixed Socialism blends as either heretical or as liminal states with Communism as a complete end goal instead of being legitimate in their own right.

          Additionally, those instances delete any comments that don’t align perfectly with their agenda, and routinely ban people who want actual discussion. So they’re not a place to discuss ideologies, they’re a place to pat each other on the back and talk about how smart and right they are.

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            It really is a hype based philosophy. I look at Marx as a bit of a stochastic terrorist of his time. His ideas aren’t dangerous particularly taken with a grain of salt but because they are written to lead one to become angrier and angrier without being given an outlet to work towards things on a constructive way Communist communities start hopeful and sour over time.

            He always dances around how that limiting of other classes authority and individual inequities is going to be handled because the answer… Is violence. A generous read is that he is naive to believe everyone will see he’s right and kumbaya the whole thing into existence but more likely because of the language he uses other places he’s flat out for the nessisary purge required to achieve his aims.

            Issue being is anarchic mobs are generally fairly weak… So to make a successful change you basically need paramilitary leaderships and military like heirachy to achieve that purge… And then so far in history that paramilitary heirachy never has effectively dissolved after the fact because if everybody is doing communism correctly creating competeting heirachy is antithetical… You are just supposed to ignore that the paramilitary heirachy that becomes the state isn’t strictly playing by Marx’s rules either but by then a population isn’t in a position to argue.

        • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          Actually I find that it allows more range of Socialism strains to be discussed. A lot of Marxists tend to look rather poorly at any mixed Socialism blends as either heretical or as liminal states with Communism as a complete end goal instead of being legitimate in their own right.

          The PRC is an example of a Socialist Market Economy, it isn’t fully socialized. What Marxists take issue with is Dictatorships of the Bourgeoisie vs Dictatorships of the Proletariat.

          Marx may have coined the term

          Marx did not coin the term. Marx was simply the most relevant and influential Socialist, and history has proven his ideas to be correct.

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            It depends on what ideas you deem to be “correct”. He was very good at elucidation of the nature of how European models of property rights were impacting large swaths of the population at large… But its difficult to say if he had everything figured out because his “dictatorship of the proletariat” doesn’t seem to ever actualize in a lasting fashion. It usually ends up as an authoritarian state arguably because the system is vulnerable to the first group that decides to break faith with the covenant. A lot of Communist hopefuls tend to either take the examples of this happening as “not true Communism” or try to minimize the bad aspects of regimes that adopted the principles… It does seem once power is too laterally spread it becomes weak to any hierarchy that as long as they can talk a good game and use Marxist language.

            In either case a lot of us would not call those outcomes “proven correct”. I would say he had some very lasting ideas which are useful tools… But the fact that none of the places where attempted enactment have particularly lived up to his hype means that like a lot of philosophy of his time that the answers are a lot more complex and nuanced than he could have forseen.

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        It’s a shame they can’t see you defending the guy calling for the death of all americans ='[

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          Because they didn’t, you defended an IDF soldier that was “bored of her office job and went on raids for fun,” and that’s yet another time you’ve misgendered them after it has been pointed out repeatedly. You also DM harassed them, and made multiple posts about it on multiple instances. Get over it and touch grass.

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            I never defended an IDF soldier, I was being compassionate towards an Israeli who was conscripted at 18 like 20 years ago and didnt want to hurt anyone and worked as a secretary, and who seems traumatized by the experience, and who is very outspoken about the Israeli genocide…

            Then a commie called for my death because I’m American here: https://lemmy.ml/post/20866301/14006932

            Then you saw this message and came out to defend the terrorist!

            If you have to lie make up quotes to defend your position, it might not be too strong

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              Again, this is after you defended an IDF soldier who went on raids because she was bored of her office job, then DM harassed them (and myself). Touch grass, you’ve been malding for 4 days and spread this nonsense everywhere you go as a personal vendetta over an online argument.

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              oops, I accidentally deleted my previous comment, but here is basically what it said:

              I never defended and IDF soldier, I was being compassionate towards an Israeli who was conscripted at 18 like 20 years ago and didnt want to hurt anyone and worked as a secretary, and who seems traumatized by the experience, and who is very outspoken about the Israeli genocide…

              then your commie buddy called for my death because I was american here:
              https://lemmy.ml/post/20866301/14006932

              Then you saw this message, and decided to defend the terrorist:

              And that quote you have is a complete fabrication! If you have to resort to making up quotes then your position must not be too strong.

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                Again, this is after you defended an IDF soldier who went on raids because she was bored of her office job, then DM harassed them (and myself). Touch grass, you’ve been malding for 4 days and spread this nonsense everywhere you go as a personal vendetta over an online argument.

              • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
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                I wouldn’t bother bro he’s still butthurt about hexbear bannin dbzer0 admins back in the day. Lookit his profile:

                “Communism is just Fascism rebranded”

                Whoops! That’s not how anythin’ works hahahaha you gotchoo a live one

                Edit: clarity

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                  I’ve noticed a ton of hexbear hate on lem.ee and dbzer0 accounts specifically. I duck my head into these instances and it does seem like they exist to shit-talk every other Lemmy instance. Then I peak into Hexbear and it’s Trans Rights, Video Games, and a top post celebrating the aniversary of the Sputnik launch.

                  So… I guess everything I’ve been told is true. Hexbear is a hateful group of pro-Russian bots and Marxism is the philosophy of the Damned.

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                    Don’t take my word for it. I was there for the vote to unban .dbzer0 the comm but only leave the admin banned (hilarious btw) who i thought was dbzer0. Did i got the wrong name?

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          How will Hexbear users threaten to execute them by firing squad if they’re not federated :(

          Edit: This happened to me, so any real people down voting can shove it.

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            The hexbear uprising against the shitposters was the largest and most comprehensive online revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of karma among the terminally online

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      Or maybe it is that bad and I’m just tuning it out? I pass by a lot of stuff that I don’t interact with.

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        See, you got the right idea. Lots of stuff i don’t agree with i just let it sliiiide on by.

        90% of the homies angry at the bear and .ml are that one type you already know. The type that can’t stand to see something in their feed they disagree with. Like the guys who’ll come into Apple threads to say “Android is superior lol”.

        So anyway these chuckleheads come into those socialist threads with the attitude they were gonna “teach some 14 yo commies” or some other candy-assed shit and got whiplash from gettin bounced hard by a mod.

        I love to see it. Every time a thread like this pops up a bunch of trolls come out to complain and i get to look up their mod logs to laugh at their embarrassing moments.

        Its not a great habit, schadenfreude, but it beats smoking weed