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It’s a strategy they use, actually describing Socialism (or Communism) risks sounding appealing instead of scary, and they want the populace to know only Capitalism as an option, so they just endlessly describe different characteristics of Capitalism while dressing them up with different coats, the more palatable ones are called Capitalism while the worse ones are called Socialism or even Communism. So even when people are totally sick of Capitalism and are willing to consider something new, if all they know about Socialism and Communism is from Capitalist sources, they end up running back into their bloody cage thinking they are escaping it. You see this play out not just in the western world’s (Global North) “news”, but also in movies out of hollywood, and games made in these Capitalist countries. Sometimes it is more subtle and sneaky, like they pretend they are actually criticizing Capitalism, but not really, and in the end it must all be dragged back to “Capitalism as the only option”.

I didn’t even realize there was a cartoon version of Sabrina, but yea that was in inspiration.

The way the UN is currently set up, the US has veto power, so unless the UN gets reformed into something new, as in no veto power, it is effectively useless.

China has been trying to change the UN into something that actually represents the interests of all the countries, but it’s not something they can do alone so it’s slow going.

Cats, being a spell casting witch with a magical talking cat familiar would be amazing, we’d ride together on a flying broom at night beneath an unrealistically large full moon while clouds drift by. It would be truly meowgical. 🐱 🧹 🌕 ✨

I think me and Ahmed gave the same answer, but with mine being indirect using an example, and Ahmed’s answer being direct, so maybe people had a harder time understanding Ahmed’s answer.

I’m not so sure about the reasoning here, Fascists also drink water, breath air, and eat food (at least until they become “the only good Fascist”)

“Propaganda” “Propagating”, interesting, that makes a lot of sense. As for manipulation, it is a bit of a loaded term, when exposed to new information, one may make a different decision than they otherwise would have, you could say that the exposure to that new information had “manipulated” them, but that wouldn’t make the information necessarily untrue or the “manipulation” as being a “bad thing” (metaphysics territory).

As far as lies go, you don’t need them nor would they even be all that useful when what one advocates for is the truth anyway. (like Scientific Socialism(Marxism Leninism))

Thanks for the mini history lesson by the way.

Thanks BTW, it was reading your posts on lemmy.ml that got me started on this path in the first place, I’d probably still be believing all sorts of absurd lies against Socialist countries if not for you, it has truly opened my mind to an amazing world of both possibilities and a far more hopeful current reality. (that and the depth of the Capitalists crimes against humanity whose true depth I hadn’t known)

Really, I used to live in an utterly hopeless darkness where I thought the only future for humanity was extinction, and it had been eating me up inside, ML Theory enabled me to see the light of humanity, just how beautiful humans can be if given the right conditions, and China has given me astronomically massive hope for the future that I’d still be blind too otherwise.

Thank you, Comrade.

This post is an excellent example of why reading Marxist Leninist Theory should not be treated as optional, there is so much wrong with the post I’m not even sure where to start, and I don’t really have the energy for it either, so unfortunately we’ll just have to leave it at that. (BTW Cowbee has an excellent guide to help you get started Basic and Advanced)

There are two major errors in this text, the first is in failing to understand the class nature of the oppression, such that it is treated as “black people versus white people” when in reality it is “working class versus billionaire ruling class”, when understood like this the 10 to 1 against us becomes closer to a million to one in our favor, it is useful for the ruling class to keep the people fighting amongst each other and not against them, so they spread lies and nonsense (racism is useful to Capitalism, so they spread it around).

The second error is in thinking there even is a non violent path in the first place, as the root of the problem is Capitalism, it has no conscious or empathy, and will sooner kill us all then give up it’s power over us. And so a small, short, but condensed (by comparison) moment of violent Revolution is needed to finally end the ongoing huge, constant, but usually dispersed and often hidden from the public view violence of Capitalism once and for all, by building Socialism on it’s parasitic corpse. (and maybe dance on it’s grave a little).

Ultimately, regardless of what metaphysical beliefs one may have, nobodies “God” is going to come down and save us, we must save ourselves, and for that we must have solidarity, work together, organize and work for the overthrow of the root cause of the oppression all people feel under the yoke of Capitalism, the staggered level of oppression in Capitalism is a “feature not a bug” as it keeps the people fighting each other, that must be overcome. (mutual aid can help with this)

As fiction exists but describes things that may not exist, I think the answer is also yes.

I don’t know about the history of the Church, but I do know that the word has been used for the handing out of legitimate and accurate information on a paper medium as a way of spreading awareness when one is censored by the State and cannot use the normal channels, and it has been used this way for a long long time before the use of it to mean the same as “lies” was popular.

That is an issue, though with that in mind one major difference between Capitalism and Socialism is that Capitalism doesn’t really care if Cops are abusive sacks of shit, so long as they keep serving the interests of Capital, on the other hand, in Socialism the whole point of the system is to best serve the interests and well being of the people in what ever capacity the current level of development of the country can provide, and so while Capitalism let’s Cops fester with power hungry racists, Socialism actively works to root out and remove corruption, finding and kicking out the power abusers.

Don’t worry about it, most Liberals (note Conservatives are also Liberals) have been fed lies their entire lives to demonize countries like China, and also many people (not just Liberals) have a hard time separating the misuse of a tool from the tool itself (Capitalists use AI against humanity) and so for these two reasons I was already expecting to get down voted, but it is perfectly fine as I do not take it personally, when a challenge comes to a persons world view, a common defensive reaction is to lash out in some way.

The “Founding Fathers” (rich slavers) had set up the “Democracy” (of the rich) with “Checks and Balances” to prevent the “Tyranny of the Majority” (Actual Democracy) precisely so the Capitalist Class (them) would remain in complete control. Considering this, it is very unlikely the modern Capitalist Class would somehow not be aware of the ways their own class has set things up to keep themselves on top and the rest of us underfoot. It is much more likely they know exactly what they are doing up on the stage, that all the real decision making is done behind closed doors, that the Billionaires and Trillionaires get the final say, and that the electoral clown show in the big party tent exists to fool the populace, only different from the start in that they got better at it. I remember when Biden straight up looked like he was having an orgasm in response to Trump “winning the election” as if it’s what he wanted to happen, like say, because it would mean they can get everything they want WITHOUT having to hide the shit they do, and so Trump also functions as a scapegoat, if they get everything the want to just “cast all the blame on Trump” Trump goes off to live in blood soaked luxury, having done his job, then the Democrats swoop in to “save the day”. Such a tactic can only work however if people fall for the clown show and don’t realize that it is the entire Capitalist system itself that is the problem and the only way forward is to overthrow it and replace it with a Socialist system.

I think you misread my intentions, I would never intentionally defend Zionists (Fascists), my focus was on whether or not bullying was an effective tactic to change a persons thinking, but I also don’t believe someone that has gone full Fascist can be reached anyways. The other point having to do with it being more important to work together with Anti Fascists to put an end to the conditions that support Fascism even being a thing, and hence “reaching those that can be reached” (to organize with for fighting Fascism). And finally I want to mention that it isn’t enough to point out Fascists being Fascists, “naming and shaming” doesn’t make the problem go away, for that Capitalism needs to be over thrown (and it can be done again)

What ever method that works as long as it actually works, though that isn’t necessarily a given, confirmation should be sought on actual effectiveness of a method, and so far to me it seems, bullying may backfire and dig in a position as one who feels they are under attack will get defensive is response. More importantly the focus should be on reaching those who are most likely to be reached, like picking the low hanging fruit before you start trying to climb the tree. As the purpose is to build to a successful Revolution and thus change the world for the better, it isn’t as important that every person is reached and on board, only enough to get the ball rolling, and that means many people need to be reached, and the most reactionary are both fewer and harder to reach compared to the overall masses who are increasingly sick of being oppressed.

The “upvote on own post by default” makes me feel awkward, maybe I’m just weird.

Edit: Ok, I’m going to stop being silly about this and leave my posts at default. Also for some reason I can only load your comment via the alerts/notification thingy in Lemmy.ml

My impression of Anarchists is one who is unable to separate the use of power (authority) from the misuse of it under Capitalism to oppress and exploit the masses as the result of trauma from experiencing this oppression (including indirectly by seeing it used on others while having empathy) and so making it psychologically difficult to confront this error in understanding the nature of power and it’s necessity to suppress the Capitalists once the Revolution succeeds so that a counter revolution doesn’t just take it all away again. That, and also often still having a lot of views of past and current Socialist countries that is in line with CIA/MI6/MOSSAD misinformation about them.

Edit: Even though Russia has gotten “Shock Doctrine” 'd into a Capitalist system (at an enormous cost to life) their position is in opposition to the Capitalist Imperialist Hegemony of the “Core Countries” (Global North) as they have been preparing to carve up Russia for them selves since the USSR was destroyed, forcing Russia to fight back, this makes Russia’s position Revolutionary (Revolution is relative, Capitalism overthrowing Feudalism is an example of a Revolution, where as Capitalist Imperialism overthrowing anything is more akin to a predator killing it’s prey and eating it’s corpse.) as well as Anti Imperialist, this is why there is so much “news” that has tried to paint the Azov Kiev Regime of the Euromaiden Color-Revolution as “legitimate” and “heroic” while also demonizing Russia, misrepresenting Putin, and spreading racism such as calling Russians “orcs”. Communists talk of “Critical Support” for Russia in acknowledgement of the fact that they are Capitalists (but not Imperialists) while also understanding that right now, they are on the right side of history as they’re fighting against the Global Capitalist Imperialist Hegemony of the Global North.

That is why I’ve started using Deepseek as a replacement for searches, the proven tract record and successes of the Communist Party of China to improve people’s lives make tech out of China OVERWHELMINGLY more trust worthy then tech out of the blood soaked Capitalist Imperialist threat to all humanity that is the US ruling class (and those who currently serve them) (and the US itself for as long as it hasn’t yet overthrown the Capitalists (basically the Billionaires, and now also a F**king Trillionare.)) (it’s almost like I’m writing code lol, I should try to make my writing style more consistent or something)