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My friends have just been to the DDR museum in Berlin and they just sent me this horse shit
(hexbear.net)
You have to design your avatar and then it tells you off for not being socialist enough. It then depicts you as a factory worker (albeit a smiling one) implying that you can't have any free will or personal tastes
Socialism when no casual clothes, magazines, or beer apparently.
One more for funsies
One of the strongest liberal attacks on socialism is "we are more than the work we do", which is why they strip you of your personal identity for socialism and only depict you as the worker identity.
It's a reapplication of the personal property vs private property argument except applied to personal identity. They're coming for your toothbrush vs they're coming for your personal identity.
The personal identity element then also ties into the "they're coming for your freedom" propaganda since the only time anyone ever feels free under capitalism is when they're able to assume their personal identity. The time that people feel least free is when forced to assume their workplace identity, which is strictly controlled by the dictatorship of a company that they work for.
The funniest thing to me in relation to this, is the complete crank "tankies" out there who are like "yes, that's exactly what communism does, and that's what we want".
I just assume these are fash or wreckers tbh. I don't believe them for a second. Doesn't matter what they are though they get treated the same way either way.
Yeah. Like, I get them on the whole "Soviet aesthetics are cool AF" thing. I even think modern commie states should still build stuff in the Soviet brutalist style, which I am aware is a controversial opinion even among commies. But at a certain point... you don't like brutalism, you like fascism in a sloppy coat of red paint.
Nazis hated what would end up becoming brutalism
Sure, the fascists hated it then. But modern fascists who think they're communists, National Bolshevik types, they really love Soviet aesthetics, they just also like systems of governance that are incompatible with socialist economic systems.