Examples:

Argue or provide evidence that capitalism or anticommunism have caused far more damage

“WHATABOUTISM”

Attribute the killings or other extreme measures to something other than communism

“LOLOL NOT REAL COMMUNISM U SAY”

Say that the tolls are massively inflated or provide evidence that they are

“LITERALLY HOLOCAUST DENIAL ONLY WORSE”

Provide evidence of communists helping and benefiting other people, or attribute historical disasters to natural or external factors

“TANKIE PROPAGANDA”

Screw it, concede that communist revolutionaries have had to violently suppress millions of counterrevolutionaries and probably caused substantial collateral damage while doing so

“YOUR IDEALOGY DOESNT WORK IF U HAVE TO USE VIOLENCE OR GET FAMINES OR ANYTHING BAD EVER HAPPENS FOR ANY RESON AT ALL…EPIC FAIL!!!”

Yawn.

No wonder it’s usually the leftoid noobs who waste their time trying to reason with these types. They just haven’t accumulated enough experience to realize that anticommies never wanted to have a conversation in the first place.

As far as I’m concerned, anticommunists are only good for trolling and nothing else. Prove me wrong, if you wish.

  • Subversivo
    20·
    2 years ago

    Yes! We need to stop wasting energy talking to reactionaries and do propaganda and agitation with the working class. The ones not brainwashed, just living their lives.

    We can move a non politically active person to the left, but can’t do the same to a anti-communist.

  • KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    2 years ago

    Nah. Mostly pointless arguing about communism with people that understand neither capitalism nor communism and haven’t read a word of Marx or any Marxist.

    Had someone tell me Das Kapital is a work of linguistics and an opinionpiece void of empiricism. Naturally they hadn’t read a word of it or any political/economic theory ever for that matter, but were completely adamant about their position.

    You can’t argue with someone like that. Most libs are like this. They’ll just nod it off or go on anticommunist tirades they’ve picked up somewhere from someone.

      • KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml
        10·
        2 years ago

        Man I wish lol. I’d be surprised if they know who Chomsky is. The lingustics part probably came from their lack of knowledge of any philosophy and thus equating philosophy and semantics (“lingustics”). Then they picked up somewhere that Marx was a philosopher and as such assumed Kapital is a work of philosophy (and thus being void of empiricism).

        It’s just crazy how bourgeois propaganda managed to give people this insane confidence about schools of thought and works they evidently haven’t got the slightest clue about. That person wouldn’t dare making such broad claims about any work else. But Marx - haven’t read a word of his, but can confidently say exactly what it is and isn’t and even the contents of a 3 part tomb of a work. How? Well one just knows.

  • CamaradaD@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    2 years ago

    It’s why, before the world Left got defanged, Communists just used to help those people answer the ages-old question: “Is there a god?” - if you know what I mean.

    Now a lot of people who call themselves communists or socialists want to do things ‘right’, even if it means being nothing more than doomed moral victors and this allowed the rise of these people.

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
          41·
          2 years ago

          Irl guys. Just ordinary proletariat plus some petty burgies, latter tend to be like this in rather dismissive manner. Some rabit anticommunists too, but those are usually no libs, you can recognize PiS fan after single sentence.

          It often surprise people about Poland, we live in 300% anticommunist propaganda which is everywhere, but it rarily come out in casual talk, unless you talk with aforementioned PiS fans or young libertarians (older libertarians, which is 1/100 of them, unlike young ones, usually can at least talk about it and not be extremely rude about it).

          • Ratette (she/her)@lemmygrad.ml
            3·
            2 years ago

            Fair play, just highlights the levels of angloid chauvinism in the UK that communism is a no go in conversation for the most part 😭

  • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 years ago

    Don’t argue with anticommunists on the internet with the aim to change their minds. Argue with anticommunists on the internet for the consideration of the silent stranger on the internet who’s watching the exchange, and who is still forming or reconsidering their ideas and ideology.

    Point out the stupidity/inconsistency/lie in the anticommunist take; leave links to evidence and resources not to prove anything to the dickhead dropping the take, but as further reading for the potential new comrade who’s silently watching.