• 13igTyme@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m not being hostile. You are reading that, based on nothing more than your interpretation.

    This is a gross misrepresentation of what socialists believe.

    I never said this is what socialist believe. Now you are reading into something I never said. I simply said I’ve actually had a conversation with more than one tankie that has used those EXACT words. I also never name called, unless you find Tankie offensive. Which I only called you that, because you are using the exact same arguments that tankies do. I also don’t need a history lesson on hopes, dreams, and ideal situations that never happened. You should really count the amount of times you said “belief”, “believe”, or “possible.”

    I agree that marxist-leninists have authoritarian tendencies, but I believe that results from their belief that power should be centralized under the state to establish a “dictatorship of the proletariat,” not from their socialist economics.

    This is nothing more than a belief that never happens and history has shown that.

    You’re recommending things that you don’t even understand and likely never read yourself.

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      2 days ago

      Nobody is interested in your fake conversations with possibly imaginary people that represent a conveniently perfect caricature of the opposing positions when you have actual people with nuanced positions here.

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        1 day ago

        It’s a 100% real conversation that I had and two people were saying the same thing. I happened a few weeks ago, I’ll try to find it in my comment history.

        I’m also not saying it represents the Socialist left, I’m saying these two represent the uneducated/ too young to know better/ “Russia” is great tankie.