You called countries like China “shitholes,” and were taking issue with the fact that the US Empire has been a constant source of pain and misery for the entire planet, yet the DPRK is labeled as a “terrorizing rogue state.” It isn’t because you don’t agree with the DPRK, it’s because you were being chauvanist and minimizing the fact that the DPRK is a very peaceful country internationally (since the Korean War) while the US Empire has been committing vast amounts of genocide and imperialism the world over

Lemmygrad.ml has been defederated from Lemmy.world, dbzer0, blahaj, etc, but such defederations are one-way. Lemmygrad.ml doesn’t block them, so Grad users can see all that content too.

Nobody thinks mass murder and war crimes are acceptable “as long as their friends are doing it.” We communists do support revolution, and using force against fascism, landlords, capitalists, etc, because that’s what’s sadly often necessary for working class liberation. We don’t simply give “mass murder” a pass, that’s like saying it’s bad to support the defeat of the Nazis in World War II because a lot of Nazis died.

Not all disagreements are “purity testing.”

All communists are at first socialists, communism is a post-socialist mode of production. Liberals on the other hand support capitalism, and do unfortunately outnumber the socialists/communists. It isn’t about “purity tests,” there are fundamental disagreements among people that cannot be reconciled.

“Tankie” is just a pejorative for Marxists in the form of a strawman laden with contradictions. Marxism-Leninism is by no means right-wing, but that just goes to show you how ridiculous the strawman is. Lemmy.world is more liberal, anti-communist, so there’s lots of red scare fearmongering over there.

As a side note, if you want a broader user experience, it might be better to make an account on sopuli.xyz or something like it that doesn’t block the major leftist instances like Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml, which Lemmy.world unfortunately does.

Not really, it’s entirely reasonable.

That’s certainly one way to frame it, though I don’t think it’s particularly accurate. In general, there are 3 major groups:

1. The Marxist-Leninists. On Lemmy, the overwhelming majority of Marxists are MLs. The MLs are found primarily on Lemmy.ml, Hexbear.net, and Lemmygrad.ml. This group was here first.

2. The anarchists. These vary much more than the Marxists do in views. They are primarily found on dbzer0/anarchist nexus, Hexbear.net, and some on slrpnk.net. This group arrived a bit after the Marxists.

3. The liberals. These vary a bit more than the anarchists do, from the more cryptofascist-aligned primarily found on sh.itjust.works, to the more DNC-aligned found on Lemmy.world, to the more social democratic found on blahaj and slrpnk.net. This group is where most newcomers go to.

These 3 groups make up the broad majority, and each instance has their own mixtute of the 3 major groups. This largely shapes how instances interact. There isn’t a grand Marxist war on the fediverse, you’re looking from the more liberal-aligned side of things.

Probably could even buy something with those.

It’s one of those things where if we treat socialism as something wholly different from all previous modes of production, or as just the next mode of production. No socialist state has ever had a pure economy, yet they’ve all delivered consistent results entirely different from capitalist economies.

“Tankie” is a strawman. It’s a pejorative for Marxists and anti-imperialists, filled with falsehoods and contradictions. The purpose of calling someone a “tankie” is to turn them into this strawman in the eyes of onlookers, it terminates the conversation. An example of this is you claiming so-called “tankies” think Russia is still a socialist country governed by a communist party, which is absurd. Russia does maintain strong ties to socialist countries like China, does oppose the western Empire, and does have rising socialist sentiment in the broader population, but absolutely isn’t socialist.

The PRC is socialist, though. Public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, and the working classes are in control of the state. Huge state owned industries are the backbone of the economy, while mixed forms of ownership make up the small and medium firms. Socialism isn’t the absence of private property, even under Mao and the Gang of Four there were still large numbers of private firms.

As for what you call “authoritarianism,” what we communists support is the working class using state authority against capitalists. Authority should be used by the working classes. This confusion of yours is why you misunderstand China. The PRC is by no means “late stage capitalist,” rather it’s relatively early in socialist development:

All in all, I suggest you listen more to these so-called “tankies,” rather than letting your imagination run wild.

Usually confronting your biases takes a catalyst, you don’t just do true passive introspection without prompting.

Depends on the instance, but generally revolutionary socialism is supported.

Lemmy is filled with people who are newly radicalized or generally progressive, but haven’t really confronted their internal biases yet.

Modlog link?

Every time.

Hexbear is explicitly pro-vegan, and takes care to make it a space where you can avoid seeing meat consumption if you wish. That’s why there are CWs for meat.

No major instances block Lemmy.ml, by the way. Some users take issue with the pro-communist stance of Lemmy.ml, but that’s nothing new for communists to deal with.

No major instances have blocked Lemmy.ml as far as I know, and users blocking Lemmy.ml doesn’t prevent us from seeing their content.

Nah, Lemmy.ml isn’t really blocked much. No major instances block it as far as I know. Lemmy.ml is just fine as an instance for tech, games, and comics, just post here!