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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So communists? Thought we had rooted them out in the nineties. But then again lemmy is run by commie tankies while Reddit is headed by far right nationalists. There's no good platform nowadays huh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bro.... For starters, not all socialists are communists. This video does a good job explaining the differences. Secondly, there's a whole other world I'd have to explain just to get to how "lemmy is run by commie tankies" is wrong. For that I'm just going to leave that Lemmy is FOSS, which means the creators are not relevant to the continuation of the project, and Lemmy instances are individually ran and can be used to block "tankies" like lemmy.world did with lemmygrad and hexbear. And finally most people have a negative view of socialism because they don't know (because it's not being taught) Marx's criticism of capitalism that is the foundation of socialist ideology. Marx wrote a whole book on it called Das Kapital, but you can get the general idea starting from here. It's a summary of chapter 4 of Das Kapital and you should watch chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 (In total doesn't take more than half an hour) to get the general idea. So even if you don't agree with socialism as a whole you at least would understand what the core issue is that socialism wants to fix.