I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

            • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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              Marxism-leninism was first synthesized by Stalin. Stalinism isn’t a thing, but Stalin was a Marxist-leninist. Stalin was a Communist. Marx was an authoritarian communist as well.

              “tankie” is just a red-scare pejorative for communists.

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                And I’m a unicorn. You can call yourself anything you want but it doesn’t make it true.

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                Stalinism is a thing. Just like Leninism, Maoism and Dengism are things. Each of them is just a interpretation of Marxism. They each critique, adapt and expand on the previous iterations of Marxism to fit new conditions.

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                  I don’t really agree. Stalin’s thoughts can be summed up in his synthesis of Marx and Lenin. There isn’t a “Stalinism” separate from Marxism-leninism, but his contribution to MLism was vital.

                  I also don’t really agree that Dengism is a thing. It’s a convenient shorthand Maoists use to describe modern China, but I don’t think Deng saw his contributions as separate from SWCC.

                  Also also, I don’t think you can fairly characterize modern Maoism as Mao’s interpretation of MLism.

                  All of these are very pedantic, so it’s very much ok if we don’t agree here! 😁

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              This is Bizarro world vibes based history. Read a fucking book literally any book. Stalin lead the USSR after Lenin lead the revolution founded on the principles of communism which were developed by Marx.

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            lol no

            “Marxist-Leninist” is enough of a self-own for us, we don’t need to invent new terms to insult communists. Real communists are just sad, naive idealists, and we pity them more than anything.

            Tankies are a whole separate bag of fucked up. They support Russia, which is clearly not communist. They’re really just anti-USA edgelords.

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            No, they’re tankies.

            It’s a description of morons that think authoritarian rule and/or genocide is ok if the people doing claim to be communists despite having no relation to the ideology. Those people aren’t communists, at best they are lying to themselves.

            (Yes, I get it. You’re a tankie)

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                No, he just failed to account for people. I see this is where the sealioning starts so I’m out. Have fun jerking off to another genocide with your tankie friends.

                • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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                  No, he just failed to account for people.

                  What do you mean by this?

                  Marx is more hard-line than Stalin.

                  If they’re both “tankies”, then I think we’re clear that the term is just base red-scare anti-communism.

                  Edit: “sealioning is when I have to defend arguments I’ve repeated but don’t actually understand”