You kept showing small scale cooperatives, then large scale digital cooperative functions, none of which proved the existence of large scale industrial cooperatives.

Either way, I take the Marxist stance, that the way forward is full public ownership and democratization, so that all of humanity can work together along a common plan, not via competition. Mastering Capital will be Humanity’s real first step into a new historic era.

I’d like to see some numbers to back your claims, but I don’t really think that’s possible to gather accurately.

Either way, defederation blocks your users from seeing their content. Pretty blatant censorship, at a broad scale. Now, I don’t try to take the stance that all censorship is bad, I definitely think things like bigotry and misinformation should be censored, however I think trying to play semantic games regarding censorship just serves to obscure bias. That extends to defederating from Leftist instances like Hexbear.

And yes, I do use Hexbear. I don’t hide that, I made my Lemmy.ml account a year ago and made a Hexbear alt about 7 months ago so I could browse it locally when I wanted to take a break from the rest of the fediverse, as Hexbear takes a hardline stance against bigotry and there’s not a constant fight between liberalism and leftism like there is on other instances.

I don’t really think there’s much point in continuing this conversation, however. I highly doubt we are going to come to an agreement, and you’re already personally insulting me, so I’d rather disengage.

You have not proven scalability of cooperativr, horizontalist large industry and the lack of necessity for violence in revolution, or threat of violence, at any stage.

Do you think every user that likes Hexbear is a Hexbear user? Moreover, full defederation is the greatest act of censorship. I’m not equating sh.itjust.works to Hexbear, I generally have better experiences and run into far less bigotry on Hexbear. Your edgy monologue was funny, though, lol.

You say they are enabling all of this rapid expansion, but they haven’t, and there’s no indication that they will.

It’s exactly what you’re doing. Spend any time there at all and the results are entirely unsurprising, the fact that you confidently discredit and doubt trans users despite doing no research into the subject is transphobic.

Yes, because I didn’t sell my soul bit by bit stepping on the hands of others over an extended period of time to get it, my mind is still that of a worker with a rage for injustice.

Equal condemnation for unequal sin minimizes the greater and exaggerates the lesser. That ceases to be an answer and becomes a cover for genocidal fascists against a national liberation movement.

Discrediting the gender identity of transgender people because they don’t agree with you politically is transphobia.

Lemmy.world doesn’t allow any opinions from Hexbear, they defederated from them. That is more censorship, though less obvious because you don’t see the comments getting removed. Even then, comments still get removed for going against the “party line” as well, usually comments critiquing the Democrats.

What’s more correct is that Hexbear is more open and up front with its bias, while instances like Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works try to pretend that they don’t hold bias.

The absolute minimum you could do is attempt to understand what Imperialism actually is. Imperialism isn’t “invasion,” it’s a form of international extraction similar to nation scale bourgeois/proletarian relations. The fact that you’re trying to redefine Imperialism as “invasion” to make someone who linked a good source outlining what Imperialism actually is in order to make the person you replied to seem hypocritical is the peak of dishonesty.

OP has the opinions of the non-Marxists already by asking here, on an instance defederated from most of the Marxists. May as well ask the Marxists what they think too.

The opposite is true, when you only ask people not federated with Hexbear you get equally imbalanced opinions. OP already did that, may as well ask on Hexbear as well to get the other side of the story.

To be clear, your posts are largely removed not just from Hexbear but other instances for rampant misogyny and general manosphere talking points, as well as getting into constant fights with other users.

Probably! There’s also a century of Red Scare propaganda distorting popular opinion, doctoring of Marx’s actual beliefs, and more. Such issues delayed my progress, which is why I try to do the best I can to try to meet people where they are at.

Hexbear has published numbers, around half the users identify as trans. Are you saying users pretend that number is higher, or are you saying that the users reporting to be trans are pretending? Neither is accurate, but the latter is incredibly transphobic.

Additionally, no one thinks Putin is a good guy.

It’s a shorthand, it’s hard to distill the nuances and complexities of a very dense and historied ideology. Getting into the nuances of property ownership would take a lot longer, because usually said conversations end up being about where the line between private, public, and personal property is drawn. Such conversations are rarely productive and miss the greater picture, and require extensive explanation of Dialectical and Historical Materialism to even get into the why of collectivizing production.

They generally don’t admit to it, claiming it’s just about censorship is a convenient excuse.

I asked because Marxists make a distinction between personal and public property, you can own things you use. Probably not owning acres of land, but housing is something you can own.

Is there something you especially believe should be ownable by individuals that you think Marxists want to collectivize?

I don’t fault the origins entirely (though it is suspicious nonetheless), I fault the staying power and the overwhelming usage by right-wing westerners. Why isn’t Obama referenced as Tigger, or Shinzo Abe as Eeyore?