A ghoul isn’t “an attractive and intelligent person” you absolute pumpkin.

That’s not how the world works in the year 2023. Isolationism just isn’t a conceivable possibility. All countries are interconnected, and what’s happening in one country influences what’s happening in other countries in major ways.

I don’t think you said anything meaningfully different from what I already said.

You do not consider the abhorrent unethical nature of certain actions as being a valid argument against taking those actions in the pursuit of establishing a communist society. The only criticism you’ll entertain is that certain actions may be ineffective or inefficient at accomplishing that goal.

No worries, that’s not what makes someone a tankie

I don’t call someone a tankie based on where they post, but in what they post. If you don’t want to be called a tankie, then don’t post tankie shit.

Kind of rude of you to agree with me

Can’t eat the rich without some utensils

America bad does not imply China good.

See that’s the thing: the fact that the west lies doesn’t mean that the east tells the truth. You are heavily skeptical of what the west has to say (good) but mostly uncritical of what any communist government has to say (bad).

Capitalist countries have done horrible things, but so have self-proclaimed communist countries

Have you never heard the phrase “the ends justify the means” before? It’s a pretty common phrase.

It means that any action, no matter how unethical or morally reprehensible, is acceptable as long as it is done to accomplish a goal that is deemed good.

This is the tankie attitude.

To reject this means that there are limitations on what actions are acceptable in pursuit of a goal. That there are some actions that are too repugnant to be justified.

I mean it kind of is you guys need to do a better job with the propagandizing.

Walks like a duck, talks like a duck, swims like a duck, annexes other countries like a duck. But it insists it’s a platypus so I guess we’ll pretend it’s a mammal.

Lol okay, sure, yeah. Only the capitalist class. Got it.

I just think it’s funny that you’re trying to flex your oh so superior knowledge about what’s literally 101 level communism.

Listen I was just being snarky and reactive. I jumped in here and started moshing around with no context.

As opposed to the kind of communism where you ask nicely for revolution? Have you actually read any Marx? I guarantee he was not a pacifist.

You deliberately misquoted me by cutting off the end of that sentence so you could have a nice soft strawman to swing at. The full sentence said

that try to impose communism through the use of force to repress dissent.

Forceful revolution by the workers against the capitalist class is a completely different matter from forceful repression of dissent by the state against students and professors.

Soviet architecture.

My partner is a teacher and is in a union. We are both active in organizing and supporting. There are no unions for the industry I work in, so I work with hers.

Download it to my phone. Will read on the bus tomorrow

lol did you copy and paste the definition of Leninism from wikipedia?