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Hey, @vwbusguy , do you mind not putting soviet swastikas in the feeds of people who follow you by re-tooting @celesteh and other folks who are really into spreading hateful ideologies? Thx.

@jonn @vwbusguy @celesteh Soviet swastikas XD If it weren't for the Red Army you'd still be living under the banners of actual swastikas.

@aspensmonster @vwbusguy @celesteh I hope that one day you will live in an equivalent of soviet union (your country is well on its way). When you do, please report back on how easy or hard will it be to procure insulin! 😂

@jonn @celesteh

As if procuring insulin is a simple process now, under capitalism.

@aspensmonster I'm with you! But don't have to be a communist to be anti-capitalist!

You may argue that being anti-capitalist automatically makes you an intersectional communist, then sign me up, but marxism-lenibism is like... Demonstrably hateful ideology which converges to authoritarianism isomorphic to fascism.

And the problem is in the communist manifesto itself. If you don't set precise and concrete parameters for distinguishing bourgeois from proletariat and call for violence *not against the property* even, but against human beings, then your criteria degrade and the guy with the rifle becomes the proletarian and everyone without a rifle becomes a bourgeois.

@jonn @aspensmonster

Being anti-capitalist doesn't automatically give you the tools to effectively oppose or replace capitalism. A good intentioned hatred of USSR/Communism/capitalism etc would only prepare any leader for repeating Soviet mistakes in the face of inevitable capitalist assault.

Where does the Communist Manifesto call for violence against human beings? I can't find any reference. Any document can be willfully mis-read to suit any agenda.

@caoilte I wouldn't dare to read it today, but you're kind of saying the same as I, except I claim that the document is willfully non-specific (probably some sort of extremism rules existed then), and you claim that I'm misreading it.

I distinctly recall that they were referring to French revolution as an example of a revolution, which clearly and irrefutably defines a possible scope of what they had in mind.

The document has many problems and is riddled in non-sequitur and straw-man, but most importantly, it fails to distinguish the classes in any meaningful way.

Also, what I will never forget is them explicitly saying that it's ok for peasants to have a house and a field (their rationale was idiotic, sadly I can't reproduce it because I find it difficult to memorise idiotic things), but apparently it's okay only until the "State" runs out of the collective "money" and needs some kolhozes (see collectivisation in ussr). 😆

I would prefer to end this conversation at that, if it's okay ❤️

(Feel free to respond, but it's very likely that I shan't).

@jonn [1/2] Since you want to end this conversation, I'll skate the details and focus on thoughts for growth.

You're a product of indoctrination, but that's okay - we all are. A challenge in life is to recognise the inconsistencies in our self identity and to understand when it expresses itself as hypocrisy. For example: calling @aspensmonster Preston "Citation Needed" Maness, without ever feeling the need to check whether a book you're trying to summarize says what you think it does.