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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

People on lemmy.ml thinking we just really enjoy Mali.

It's actually been super refreshing to, generally, be able to say I am a Marxist-Leninist and not immediately get downvoted into oblivion. There are still some of the kneejerk reactions to the CPC, but even then people seem more willing to engage on good-faith even with disagreements.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

be able to say I am a Marxist-Leninist

CPC

I think those two things are not the same and quite incompatible. Modern China is a capitalist hellscape, certainly not the communist utopia Marx had in mind. They have one of the highest levels of wealth disparity in the world and the highest number of billionaires, even more than the US.

I fully believe that Marx would be horrified if he saw modern China.

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