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This is now the second highest voted post on r/Marxism: "In light of what happened at USA inauguration, I will admit this: socialists, you were right." (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by RedWizard@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I haven't assessed the quality of the comments yet, but this is incredibly interesting to see.

Edit: aaannd its gone. I should have copied the post when it was up.

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[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I do believe that he was a communist thoroughly

I'm not sure how much I'm wasting my time here, especially since you commented on a nearly week old comment to start this conversation, and you're from an instance I don't recognize as ideologically socialist, but we agree that this is a mark in his favor, right?

it would be great if there was a source I could read

I'm not particularly well-read to be honest, but Alaskaball put together a thread explaining what the purges were actually about (mostly expelling people who'd joined the party for personal advancement rather than ideological commitment to socialism, along with other assorted scum. Some people did get kicked out for holding beliefs at odds with party leadership, but it was mostly careerist and people with bad reputations amongst the [non-party] people they interacted with daily, like a University president who got purged for being deeply disliked by his school's students).

https://hexbear.net/post/213460?scrollToComments=false

you may guess why

Probably the redscare propaganda out society is inundated with daily, it even affects communists in the West.

[–] kaprap@leminal.space 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not a waste of time if you helped me — which you did — so thank you.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks, a lot of people ask questions like that in bad faith so people (me included) are a little quick to get defensive sometimes. Glad you felt the interaction was beneficial.