Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide
https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342
Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.
Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed):
Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem:
https://lemmy.world/post/16211417
And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances:
https://lemmy.world/post/16235541
What is a tankie?
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.
“Dictatorship of the proletariat” literally works out to “rule by one guy of nearly everyone.” What actually happens, basically every time, is plain old dictatorship of the dictator. Because that’s what a fucking dictatorship is. If there’s a whole bunch of other people who matter equally - that is the wrong word, in any language.
You’re using the term dictatorship in a meaningless way and might benefit reading F. Engels - On authority that asks the question, if any form of organization is possible without authority.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
I’m using it the way everyone but you fuckers uses it.
I’m using it the way… it means what people understand… when you say that word.
If you mean something else, this is the wrong word.
It might help your understanding that the definitions of words is highly political and also subject to change. It speaks volumes that you’re incapable of understanding this.
E.g. According to libs capitalism is something very cool and good in contrast Marxists that use a different definition of the word and don’t see it that way. Similarly the definition of “dictatorship”. Here Marxists asks dictatorship for what class of people.
Also your argument that the majority of people use a certain meaning and therefore it’s the only one is just cute. Not like there’s historical examples that show this type of thinking to be fallacious.
‘There’s your definition and then literally everyone else’s definition.’
‘Oh so there’s only one definition?!’
Good day.
Implying that just because the majority uses it therefore it’s right
I said literally the opposite
Fuck off
There are texts describing what “dictatorship of the proletariat” means. Dictatorship had a specific meaning at the time and people’s perception on what it means has changed. That does not mean the meaning of “dictatorship of the proletariat” has changed, which is, by the way, something you brought up to prove that communism == dictatorship. You’ve been arguing against yourself this whole thread.
I sure didn’t.