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[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (20 children)

I have to caulk it up to young people learning about socialism and communism for the first time, but they're only reading Marx and Lenin.

Like hey guys, they lost pretty hard. Maybe we shouldn't do exactly the same thing and in fact there's decades of work outlining what we should do instead?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

That's the charitable interpretation. The less charitable one is astroturfing aiming to further destabilize "the west"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was crazy the amount of red scare shit circling when I started on Lemmy. It was like they were trying to radicalize people by pitting them against the "crazy leftists."

God, please never let McCarthyism make a come back. What a waste of our time and energy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The problem is there are crazy "leftists" on lemmy. Your instance defederated from the instances home to the worst of them, so you probably didn't get to experience it.

Imagine people the adhere to some of the worst parts of right-wing fascism, but with "leftist" branding.

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