Aaaaaaand I just got banned from NOT one, NOT two, NOT three, but four Lemmy.ml communities. Is this a sign I have to start studying and reading up on theory?
Also, I know some Lemmy.ml mods is gonna say that “you wouldn’t get banned from these communities had you read your theory!” like they’re teachers demanding students to eat their meat before they can have their pudding (because how can you have your pudding when you don’t eat your meat?)
Now I support the idea of socialism (I’m more of a market socialist), and I’m NOT against the idea of actually existing socialist countries (ie: China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and the DPRK). That said, I think Lemmy.ml should be more open to different forms of socialism, as well as the Marxist Leninists who DOESN’T have to support Stalin (and his bureaucratic and polarizing practices while General Secretary of the CPSU) to support ML.
I am very bummed that I CAN’T respond in these communities - that said, I can subscribe to different versions of these communities that happened to be in different Lemmy instances (other than Lemmy.ml):
Socialism:
!actualsocialism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
!actualsocialism101@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Privacy:
Memes:
Lemmy support:
Someone should make another Lemmy support community here in this instance
I’m NOT knocking the instance for being Marxist-Leninists - that said, if mods in that instance warms up to non-Marxist-Leninists (like De Leonists, council communists and syndicalists, for example), I wouldn’t get banned there to begin with.
Yeah, I tried to steer clear commenting on whatever people choose to follow politically or socially. It is a highly curated echo-chamber, is my point. (Most social media rabbit holes are echo-chambers, but ml wins awards for that.)
People on Hexbear seem to think that my socialist views are “revisionist”.
Hex bear and ML are a cult. And I’m pretty sure only 1/3 of them are actually drinking the Kool-Aid, the rest seem to be astro turf bots. As far as I can tell, it’s a mass disinformation campaign.
Keep in mind I myself am not a socialist, even though I do believe they make some good points. I’m a centrist libertarian focusing on Geoism, Minarchism, and strong protections for workers. You know things like cutting corporate welfare and increasing social welfare. Taxes based on land use. Etc.
Getting banned is a mark of Honor. It means you had a brain and used it to question authoritarian bullshit.
What about the Marxist-Leninists who DON’T support Stalin?
You’ll have to be more specific as those words can mean a lot of things. I’d advise you focus less on labels and more on helping others in your day to day life.