On this week this niche leftist forum was first launched (its was the 24th or 25th i think) Formed from the Chapotraphouse subreddit remnants that survived the reddit ban over the calls of violence against confederate slave owners, the first admins decided to use Lemmy as its base. Originally called Chapo.chat (ChaCha) Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.

In this last 5 years hexbear has survived many diffent events from numerous struggle sessions, mod clique-users conflicts, wrecker incursions from other instances and sites, this image dprk-soldier , a decent amount of fedidrama with other instances and the domain crisis, we still thrive with over 5 million comments and 375k posts.

I still continue my dictatorial rule over the general megathread for now over 4 years now, this time locked in the chapo comm so it can be more easily moderated, c/indigenous has now grown to 750 subs which im very happy plus now i take care of the empoc mega which has been pretty chill so far.

I still really enjoy the fedidrama, it fun to see all the fedilibs always thinking about hexbear despide the fact that they are on defederated instances and they can ust ignore us, we live rent free on their minds

Have all you nerds a good week, Read Absolute Batman, its good

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2024-july 2025)?

🐻Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5554224
⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/5485455
✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/5550316
👊 New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/5612470
🧡 Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5552737
☕ Parenting Chat https://hexbear.net/post/5615086

reminders:

💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
💜 Sorting by new you nerd
🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

❤️Foundations of Leninism
❤️Anarchism and Other Essays

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[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A close family member is having trouble with a terrible landlord... Any wholesome, empowering memes about landlords? I already got this(but it doesn't have to be about Mao):

Also, I'm out of the loop, where did that one line come from originally? You know the one:

The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry.

Is it just copypasta?

[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Iirc the pasta is a paraphrase of the Wikipedia article that has been edited in ways so that the original no longer exists

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think these three paragraphs - or an earlier version of them - comprised the original copypasta, which was removed from Wikipedia for a time but has since been reinstated.

As an economic reform program, the land reform succeeded in redistributing about 43% of China's cultivated land to approximately 60% of the rural population. Poor peasants increased their holdings, while middle peasants benefitted most because of their strong initial position.[4] The movement expropriated land from over ten million landlords.[103] Historian Walter Scheidel writes that the violence of the land reform campaign had a significant impact in reducing economic inequality. He gives as an example the 1940s campaigns in Zhangzhuangcun, a village called Long Bow in William Hinton's book Fanshen. Although poor and middle peasants had already owned 70% of the land:

In Zhangzhuangcun, in the more thoroughly reformed north of the country, most "landlords" and "rich peasants" had lost all their land and often their lives or had fled. All formerly landless workers had received land, which eliminated this category altogether. As a result, "middling peasants," who now accounted for 90 percent of the village population, owned 90.8 percent of the land, as close to perfect equality as one could possibly hope for.[3]

Academic Brian DeMare states, "In the aftermath of land reform and the redistribution of village fields, many peasants indeed prospered. The turn from rural revolution to regular agricultural production generally resulted in increasing harvests and rising incomes. Besides the obvious benefit of the end of decades of warfare and chaos, the enthusiasm of new land owners drove production."[104]

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh, that's great, thanks! Good, that is was reinstated. Since the text keeps mentioning 'violence', it could be slightly improved, if it also emphasized, how the generations old systemic violence of landlords was ended.

[–] Taster_Of_Treats@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

You would need to find a scholarly source that described the systemic violence as such.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

@wombat@hexbear.net