• @duviobaz@lemmy.world
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        711 months ago

        Those people are not considered communists by actual communists. Actual communists are in favor of NATO.

        • PugJesusOP
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          1811 months ago

          Actual communists are in favor of NATO.

          Wouldn’t go that far. Actual communists may not be as reflexively “West Bad” as tankies, but generally have a negative view of Western-led international initiatives like NATO.

          • @duviobaz@lemmy.world
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            1111 months ago

            I am a full blown communist, despie the soviet union, china, the DPRK, vietnam, the middle east and so on, yet support NATO, the west and especially europe, while also acknowledging that the west is not perfect and does a shitton of bad stuff. Edgy anti-communists can’t bother to not think in black&white. Reality is more complex than that.

              • @orrk@lemmy.world
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                811 months ago

                wait, you think it’s wrong to have a problem with an authoritarian state as a communist?

                brother in Christ, most left coms see Stalinism, and it’s progeny as nothing more than fascist masquerading as communists, I mean what actual resemblance do they have to a stateless society run by local governments made of the people who live there, and while I’m not 100% with the outdated anarchism, I can at least recognize that the soviet and the sino state structures aren’t communist

                • @Fawxhox@lemmy.world
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                  111 months ago

                  You didn’t answer my question. Besides to say it’s authoritarian (which, so are most forms of communism

                  • @orrk@lemmy.world
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                    211 months ago

                    not really, communism calls for an abolishment of the state, or are we playing the “everything that calls its self X is X” game?

                    by that logic, the DEMOCRATIC people’s REPUBLIC of Korea must be a democratic republic, the people’s REPUBLIC of china must be a Republic, etc…

                    or do we describe things based on what they act like?

            • @mulcahey@lemmy.world
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              111 months ago

              Hey quick question: Are there any communist countries that you, a “full blown communist,” support?

              You might enjoy this essay on the importance of supporting communists when they win, and not just when they lose.

        • @SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world
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          911 months ago

          And the name we designate these “communists” are tankies or MLs (Marxist-Lenninists). They are only communist in name and believe in authoritarian ideals like what is happening in China or Russia.

    • @rambaroo@lemmy.world
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      -4911 months ago

      Oh look, a fascist who labels anyone that criticises a stupid right wing meme as a genocide apologist.