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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

libertarian socialist/communist

When your socialist / communist group arms and starts defending themselves and their class interests, what prevents someone labeling them as authoritarian for doing so?

Socialist countries like the PRC lived through a hundred years of imperial exploitation by foreign powers (Britain, the US, and Japan), and fought a decades-long civil war against feudal reactionaries to finally liberate themselves from these oppressions. Do you know something they don't, about how to establish socialism, "non-authoritarianly"?