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Translation: We only allow "protests" that are ineffective and don't cause any trouble for the ruling class

Also, Lemmy.world user detected, opinion rejected.

There is no impartiality for genocide.

The Viet Cong killed hundreds in the same way, and so have all successful revolutionary groups in the past. Decolonization is violent, if you don't like it don't colonize in the first place.

Edit: And Hamas, even with their far less precise gear and without military superiority, has done a far better job avoiding killing civilians than the occupation has. The final death toll from the Oct 7 retaliation is now thought to be 695 Israeli “civilians” (mostly unarmed IDF conscripts), 373 armed IDF members, 71 foreigners and 36 children. While Israel has killed over 30 thousand Palestinians, 2/3 of whom are women and children.

Back when Colombia had a far-right government surrounded by leftist ones, Chavez called it the "israel of Latin America" for being a US puppet. Fascinating how things can change.

Maybe lemmy.world will have ads and NFTs at some point too lol

I don't think that's necessarily true. Tons of young people are communists. OP being politically illiterate doesn't have to be for their age, though that's likely part of it.

Seems like they're just woefully misinformed, though anticommunism does just mean fascism.

And as people have mentioned here, it can take until you're in your 40s for some to finally escape all the anticommunist propaganda they've been fed their whole lives in capitalist states.

A state that prioritizes capitalist profit over worker interests is worse for the people?? Who could've seen this coming :0

The capitalist takeover of the former USSR is one of the greatest tragedies of the last few decades. Both for those countries, and for the global socialist movement. The modern capitalist Russia has no reason to support and fund socialist movements like they used to (like in Palestine, Vietnam, DPRK, Cuba, Bangladesh etc)

What?? 😭 😭 😭

There are Socialists that take offense to being called Communist, because for them, Socialism is the goal itself

Very rare. Those who do dislike being called communists probably aren't very serious about socialism at all, and probably only want the "social capitalism" of Scandanavian countries.

they will take it as an insult if you call them socialist

What a dumb thing to say. Browse those instances and talk to communists/socialists there before you make weird claims about them. Or at least learn about socialism in general first.

• Principles of Communism

• Chris Harman - How Marxism Works