I have noticed a huge difference between Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml in terms of what kinds of theory gets upvoted and downvoted. What is the general vibe on here towards actually existing socialism as well as the ideas towards reformism?

  • gaberlunzie@lemmy.world
    63·
    2 years ago

    You realise the USA has its own slave labour gulag unmatched by Russia and China today, right? Though Soviet gulag was ruthless, born to meet rapid wartime industrialisation and unrelenting landowners (kulaks), it was more lax and informal than Auschwitz death camps that you wish to portray.

    Meanwhile, Jim Crow and sundown towns in the USA oversaw its own apartheid underclass, many of whom looked to Soviet Russia for equity, Paul Robeson being the most notable.

    Edit: replaced Tsarist-era ‘The Black Russian’ episode with more intended Soviet-era link, quite belatedly.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.world
      33·
      2 years ago

      Whataboutism again. Yes the USA still has slave labor. No it isn’t unmatched by Russia and China. That’s an absurd thing to say. And even then. The US having that doesn’t justify Russia or China for their repression either.