Lol on Deprogram they made a great point. Communists must know everything about every topic, we need to know biology, history, economics, politics, philosophy, and anthropology, meanwhile the bar is below the ground for what it takes to be a good anti-communist. You can say Uyghurs are being killed or imprisoned. You can say Mao killed people who were never born, you can blame regularly occurring famines on one individual person’s decisions. You can claim that a nation with representative government and voting rights for all has No democracy, hell you can call the leader of that Democratic Republic that he’s a dictator despite popular support and tangible achievements for their nation that were not present before the Revolution. you can defend USA’s use of nuclear weapons on civilians but you can at the same time say the US is the only one responsible enough to use them and will call Kim Jong Un(who has never once actually used nuclear weapons on enemy targets before) a violent maniac that will blow us all up. Classic Anti-comms, smfh
I love that podcast and I recall them making this point (or perhaps I am mixing up my podcasts). I think the burden comes from so few numbers of us that one person will be arguing for socialism against like 10 people or more (at least the propaganda generated by 1 person to 10) so it becomes a tall order.
Yea definitely, it’s tough to argue in favor of socialism with so many instantly wincing in fear at the mere mention of it in capitalist hubs like UK Germany US and many others
Lol on Deprogram they made a great point. Communists must know everything about every topic, we need to know biology, history, economics, politics, philosophy, and anthropology, meanwhile the bar is below the ground for what it takes to be a good anti-communist. You can say Uyghurs are being killed or imprisoned. You can say Mao killed people who were never born, you can blame regularly occurring famines on one individual person’s decisions. You can claim that a nation with representative government and voting rights for all has No democracy, hell you can call the leader of that Democratic Republic that he’s a dictator despite popular support and tangible achievements for their nation that were not present before the Revolution. you can defend USA’s use of nuclear weapons on civilians but you can at the same time say the US is the only one responsible enough to use them and will call Kim Jong Un(who has never once actually used nuclear weapons on enemy targets before) a violent maniac that will blow us all up. Classic Anti-comms, smfh
I love that podcast and I recall them making this point (or perhaps I am mixing up my podcasts). I think the burden comes from so few numbers of us that one person will be arguing for socialism against like 10 people or more (at least the propaganda generated by 1 person to 10) so it becomes a tall order.
Yea definitely, it’s tough to argue in favor of socialism with so many instantly wincing in fear at the mere mention of it in capitalist hubs like UK Germany US and many others