Let me tell you about how calling a Chinese guy a yellow bear is the funniest thing ever and definitely not an unconsciously racist thought-terminating cliché.
CarlMarks
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Is the Russian propaganda in the room with us right now?
Don't forget our militant labor anarchists as well, they also did a ton of work building up unions in the west.
The welfare state was a response to the militant labor movement that had already won most of those concessions for their own members and were threatening to do a lot more. This dovetailed with a need to counter the very real welfare state pioneeted by the Soviets decades earlier.
An easy place to begin informing yourself is to read up on FDR and where his motivations for The New Deal came from, and who he wanted to defang.
The authority of the working class and intolersnce for Nazis, sure.
Re: human rights, inclusiveness, and social security: bullshit. Not even on the same planet at those who bring skepticism towards hegemonic propaganda narratives, and particularly from a socialist perspective, i.e. the preemptively banned instance.
I for one think John Brown did nothing wrong. Would you please clarify your stance on defending slaveowners' right to life, as was the Reddit admins' reasoning?
Lemmy was created by and continues to be maintained by communists.
Liberal instances try to recreate their echo chambers and continue to cry about it.
That tends to happen when you approach a situation with bad faith, yeah. Consider changing your outlook rather than blaming others for it.
PS read my books
I famously predicted a tendency towards monopoly as a means by which to increase both the rate and mass of profit.
If it's being used to criticize Marxism by suggesting just wanting and talking about things is plenty enough (which I have dealt with irl many times), the simplest response is to point to the zero postmodernist revolutions and that the places where it became in any way popular are colonizer countries currently being stripped for parts through neoliberalization.
But only if it's being used that way. Postmodernism as a fun little academic exercise is fine.
Some conspiracies are real, and are some of the most harmful things on the planet. They're both evil and banal, and they look like petrochemical consortia trying out some new PR firms or Victoria Nuland casually talking about who should be put in political leadership in Ukraine post-Euromaidan.
The people who are best-informed get pretty invested in opposing those harms and wonder why (some) others are so viciously opposed to learning about them.