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You feared socialism (lemmy.world)
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[–] 41 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I agree that socialism has been vilified, but not a single person was told wanting a better world makes you weak. They were told that a better world is impossible, that socialism would make people lazy, that the purges were a communist policy (and that there's no difference between communism and socialism).

Some anti-left people will never come round, but some will, and we need numbers. Talking down to them won't bring anyone around.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    ok we wont talk down to them but we can still slap them hard on the back of the head a lot right? or rub their faces in the shit of their outcomes.. just do it quietly?

    /s yeah, I agree with you. Its counterproductive.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I feel like the only people purged were the capitalist bootlickers and robber barons. It's always a cooked up story when "Doctors, Teachers, and Businessmen" were purged because you know it was just the last category that felt oppressed even at the slightest course-correction from their vile system.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Defending Stalin will not bring anyone around, either.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Ironic how you call out how socialism and communism have been misrepresented and lied about, then immediately leap to defend the capitalist narrative around socialist leaders.

    I don’t blame you though, our society has done a fantastic job of making up a narrative that socialists are the same as fascists, and conditioning people to ostracize anyone who questions that narrative, even though the actual historical evidence does not support it.

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