I think North Korea isn't a place in the real world, rather, it's a place in the hearts of libs everywhere, an idea of a place that they can cover an actually existing country with like a blanket, so they can pretend to be experts on them and announce their declarations of superiority.
DamarcusArt
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Yeah, it's a paraphrased Stalin quote. "Doing one thing is a tragedy but doing a million of the same thing is the definition of insanity."
But are those people actually choosing to feel bad, or is their feeling bad pre-determined?
I must've heard the two used interchangeably at some point, thanks for letting me know, last thing I want to do is mention Ukraine being the most poor and corrupt country in Europe before the war and have some shitlib go
"umm acktually Moldova was technically the poorest, so I can now safely ignore your entire argument about how the west is fucking over Ukraine?"
Those are a lot. Damn. I usually make fun of libs for being overly verbose, but those two sentences contain a neutron star's worth of condensed bullshit.
I really hope this election leads to a major civil dispute where both parties accuse the other of election fraud so heavily they refuse to accept the results of the election.
Who am I kidding though? The libs will just fall in lockstep and follow whomever is in charge, even if they think the election is 100% stolen.
While I do agree that they should largely just have fun with the shitty railroad dm and mess with them, I think them trying to be an ultra-capitalist character will be exactly what the DM wants. 90% of anti-com arguments are just describing capitalism and then saying it is socialism.
Yeah, I heard this and that's what it sounded like. It sounded like the usual lib "teaching through metaphor" that they like to do so much.
"I'll just show him how evil the commies really were when I'm DM, because I'm too much of a coward to admit openly that his character's views make me uncomfortable."
I don't know what's going on here, but I think I just bowled a strike?
Ah, ok. I remember Ukraine being both the poorest (I think per capita) and the most corrupt prior to the war, I could easily be wrong though.
Umm acktually sweaty, history is over? That means any country trying to move away from a capitalist mode of production is going to collapse? it's basic economics 101?
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How can we answer the question "China is revisionist because of billionaires in the party?"
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Hi! Long time lurker, first time poster. Been discussing stuff with MLs of all stripes recently, and have come across a common statement used by a lot of Maoists which frustrates me.
They seem to always fall back on statements like "The CPC allows billionaires in their ranks, so they are revisionist."
Maoists have often used this as a kind of "gotcha" argument against more traditional MLs, or "Dengists" as they love to label us.
It's frustrating, because...I don't disagree really, allowing members of the bourgeoisie to hold political power is pretty much the definition of revisionism. The problem is, this feels more like a way to silence dissent or discussion rather than facilitate it. Feels like an overly simplistic hard line that simplifies history into binary divisions. Often followed by an implied "China is revisionist, therefore Maoism is the only working form of socialism."
I'm reaching out to people to see if anyone has any ways to combat this, in a way that encourages discussion rather than it just devolving into insults or truisms hurled back and forth without thought.
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