I’m really enjoying this.

  • Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    So far I’ve certainly enjoyed having my silly, ignorant questions about former and current socialist projects answered in-depth. It really is a breath of fresh air to feel like I can converse with others about the USSR, DPRK, China, Cuba, Vietnam, et cetera, without the capitalist mythologizing meant to portray these countries in the worst possible light — and at the same time, being a leftist conversing with other leftists, also without the sort of counter-mythologizing of these countries meant to portray them in the best possible light, to appease the impossible standards of liberals. The conversations I can have here just feel more mature, despite this being the selfsame instance with Pig Poop Balls. I’m not even a Marxist-Leninist, but I’m just tired of people brushing off massive improvements to the standards of living of over-exploited regions because “it was a one-party dictatorship who did it” or “it doesn’t count because it’s a stateless rebel territory, not a real country”.