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Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

unfortunately I think this is just him saying he's a "woke communist" if being a woke communist is atheism, women's rights, and gun control. I don't think he's a marxist of any stripe it seems. However, I am willing to be corrected here. I've only seen this post regarding to him.

But Linux is programming-communism

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh I should probably try reading things soviet-pout

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if libs are comfortable calling themselves commie in any context that makes our job easier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think it has a meaningful effect. Libs call themselves socialists all the time. For every case you're able to argue for socialism and not have people's brains shut down, you get 10 "those tankies aren't real socialists! Socialism is when you vote for food stamps and means-tested college subsidies"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think his point is that people who call things "woke communism", in a negative way, have no idea what communism actually is. To those people, everything from the center to the left of politics is woke communism.