• Zloubida
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    33 hours ago

    While Marxism-Leninism gets hijacked by reactionary forces for their own purposes and gets recuperated under capital after that.

    • queermunist she/her
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      33 hours ago

      The USSR lost the Cold War, but there’s plenty of ML counties still around. I’m sure you’ll whine they aren’t paradises, but they’re all generally progressing and developing in a positive direction (when they aren’t being strangled to death like Cuba)

      Not a lot of anarchist spaces by comparison. There’s the Zapatistas and they’re pretty cool, but like, the record is pretty clear.

      • Zloubida
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        32 hours ago

        And before the end of the cold war, USSR was a reactionary country governed by an elite for its own interests. It’s the same in China. The same in Vietnam, the same in Cuba (but at least there they have the excuse of the unjust US politics against them).

        • queermunist she/her
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          Eliminating homelessness, eliminating illiteracy, eliminating hunger, increasing life expectancies, increasing graduation rates, increasing quality of life, actually existing socialist countries accomplish incredible things (some more than others, admittedly). They’re not perfect utopias, but you can’t ignore the context they exist within (i.e. they’re still developing countries and they exist within US global hegemony)

          I’m sure you have some specific criticisms of China or Cuba or whatever, but they’re doing pretty fucking good considering what they’re up against.

          While you keep on dreaming of utopia, I’m more concerned with defeating than US empire in the real world. Anarchism can’t.

          • Zloubida
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            133 minutes ago

            Capitalist countries did the same thing without building walls to stop their population to flee…