The people before us weren’t perfect. Their mistakes are blueprints to learn from and build a better world

  • 秦始皇帝@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    doesn’t believe in authoritarianism.

    Authoritarian is a meaningless pejorative. All states/countries/political groups etc. must be authoritarian by necessity in class society.

    For heaven’s sake, his own guards were scared of him. In fact, he died because he instilled so much fear into them.

    Major citation needed.

      • 秦始皇帝@lemmy.ml
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        I don’t even believe in a class society.

        You don’t think classes exist? Or you think it’s possible to abolish classes at the press of a button without any transitionary phase? Either way this is idiotic.

        more classy like Thomas Sankara.

        Leader who believes the things I believe (Marxism Leninism) but was assassinated before the consolidation of the workers state began. You should probably investigate subjects before you speak on them.

        have several articles I can cite, but I’ll use this one because it jumps straight to the point.

        This site won’t load but from dealing with them previously I vaguely remember them as a liberal nonsense publisher however if you can provide an archive link or equivalent I can give my proper views on this article in particular.

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        You may not believe in classes, but that doesn’t negate their existence.

        We will continue to support AES states (current and those sadly no longer extant). Go advocate for utopianism somewhere else.

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        3 months ago

        Y’all are so quick to suck up to sketchy leaders when you could be hoping for someone more classy like Thomas Sankara.

        It’s so obvious that the only standard western “leftists” have for who was a “classy” leftist and who was an evil authoritarian is whether they were martyred or not. You’re clearly just readapting Christianity here in order to say the only good leftist is a dead leftist

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            For example, Thomas Sankara was an actual decent person

            That’s cool that being nice is the ceiling of revolutionary possibility in your brutally constrained mind, but the Chinese Communists did this:

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            According to the journalist Sennen Andriamirado, who wrote two early books on Sankara, the Burkinabè leader believed that “Stalin killed Leninism by stifling the soviets and making all-powerful the Cheka [secret police], the military,” and other repressive bodies.

            Hmm, I wonder if protecting the socialist leadership was a factor in this. Too bad he got assassinated, proving that using state power to oppose the reactionary forces is critically important in a nascent socialist state.

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            3 months ago

            Why don’t you just come out and admit you only like leftist leaders who get killed before they can do much, that’s clearly what you think