You should check out Vincent Bevins' book The Jakarta Method. He covers the genocide of leftists in Indonesia but throughout it talks to people who've been victims of the Jakarta Method, people who were ostensibly where you are, they were communists who were against the use of force. And do you know what happened to them and their friends? They had to flee for their lives while their friends got murdered because as it turns out Capitalists will absolutely use authority to squash and kill anything that even remotely threatens their power. They've since changed their mind.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I appreciate that you are being more reasonable than the others commenting to me. I will give it a read.

to be clear though, I'm not even opposed to revolution, but a society can't take one autocratic rule and replace it with another. I think, especially with this thread, that a lot of people here are taking their rightful hatred of capitalism and channeling it into the support of an oligarchic authoritarian (Putin and Russia). Oligarchic Russia should not be the model of communist nation. This is why I largely don't consider these commenters to be arguing in good faith. They are rooting for a Capitalist nation to win in a fight with a bunch of other capitalist nations.

[–] ComradeCmdrPiggy@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a lot of people here are taking their rightful hatred of capitalism and channeling it into the support of an oligarchic authoritarian (Putin and Russia)

Google "1993 constitutional crisis" to see where the correct channeling of hate for capitalism went.

FWIW similar fates for leftists have occurred in Iran, Palestine, Afghanistan, and other countries that hate the US but have ended up being run by highly reactionary factions.

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