54
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
54 points (95.0% liked)
Comradeship // Freechat
2042 readers
94 users here now
Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.
A community for comrades to chat and talk about whatever doesn't fit other communities
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Also that weird thing among Western leftists where they only glorify the failed attempts
The term "leftist" is something I learned from the Internet, as neither the history books or the political education books in Vietnam use this term. As a result, I fail to discern Western Leftist from an average liberal, unless they talk like a Marxist-Leninist.
That isn't an incorrect assessment, they are functionally liberals, just with left wing aesthetics. People who might say they care about socialist causes but then explicitly reject every successful socialist state for being "authoritarian." like any good liberal, they think that buzzwords are a substitute for theory.
The long shadow of christianity
It's not weird, failed revolutions don't change the status quo. Which is why western leftists love them. They can pretend to be morally superior while benefiting from the Imperial plunder. They seem more self aware than we give them credit for.
Shouldn't they be stanning the people who Finland executed in the interwar period instead of WW2 Finland then?
“Well, ackshually, execution = criminal = bad”