• @Silk@lemm.ee
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    264 months ago

    I saw the Hammer and Sickle on lemmy.ml and that was enough for me to know that they were probably Campists and Stalinists lol.

    I guess it’s good Lemmy has the different instances(?) even tho it’s a bit annoying.

    • @blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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      104 months ago

      The beauty is that you can just block the annoying instances. I’ve blocked lemmy.ml so I don’t see their communities, but can still see their users commenting on posts.

      • Yes but its better that if people who are easily misled find .ml they don’t just see a bunch of propaganda with noone arguing about it. It makes it look more normal. The best thing is to constantly call them idiots and accuse them of solvent abuse. That way when gullible idiots come across it they know it’s stupid. A lot of people need to be told.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      64 months ago

      There’s going to be Marxists on Lemmy, the lead developers of the software are Marxist-Leninists and some of the largest instances are explicitly Socialist-aligned.

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          14 months ago

          Sure, but the vast majority of Marxists globally are Marxist-Leninists, and Lemmy’s makeup reflects that.

            • Cowbee [he/they]
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              14 months ago

              The hammer and sickle is a symbol of Marxism-Leninism, though, the hammer being for the proletariat and sickle for the peasantry. This is just kinda silly

              • @Silk@lemm.ee
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                14 months ago

                But it’s associated in my experience with uncritical support of the USSR in the Stalinist period.

                • Cowbee [he/they]
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                  14 months ago

                  The overwhelming majority of Marxist-Leninists support the USSR, but don’t feel that it was a paradise nor free from mistake, including in the era of Stalin. The hammer and sickle is associated with Marxism-Leninism, and the various Marxist-Leninist parties, groups, and countries around the world.