They act like the ideology is static and everyone agrees with each other and how things were in the past.

They act as if liberals and conservatives weren't lynching minorities a few decades ago, then spend millions of dollars trying to court them to their side today. They act as if they weren't sterilizing you for being disabled or gay for centuries, then spend millions encouraging corporations to throw parades for them. American liberals act as if their best selling broadway show isn't about pro-American POC playing as historical figures who would've put a chain around all of their necks and sent to the fields.

I don't mention these things to defend socialist countries that had the same or similar policies towards minorities. But it's fucking annoying to see that the sentiment that only capitalists are allowed to evolve and change their stances on things. "Stop crying about slavery, that was hundreds of years ago. But every sin under communism must be scrutinized because everyone today still supports the same exact beliefs a hundred years ago."

  • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    1 year ago

    None of these people are going to read anything. Hell, if you look at the stats of Amerikkkans who read anything past their school years it's horrible. Being a Marxist requires some level of reading/learning that's just not compatible with folks lives and the only other way they're going to learn about the history of communism is through their highschool history teacher telling them bullshit about how Stalin loved Hitler and famously "said" "no man no problem"

      • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        1 year ago

        It would be nice if we learned anything about the command economies of AES countries, much less about anything Stalin had written (especially the stuff from his private book collection) but that's never going to happen