In their first comment too. I mean I know Reddit is a cesspool and I know r/communism is Gonzalo Central, but damn, it’s infected far. I went back on the platform to promote my articles because despite the malding, it drives a lot of traffic lol. Otherwise I would never touch that website (though the TrueAnon subreddit loves them and it creates interesting discussions, I’m not gonna lump them in with the rest of Reddit like that).
I forced that person in a struggle session over their take and they moved the goalposts until they decided to disengage lol. But it’s okay, they know what they said.
If you want to read the exchange: https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/182vnkk/the_end_of_ukraine_and_after_the_war_in_ukraine/kalpc0v/?context=10000
A painful lesson all communists learn I think is that not everyone is your comrade. But I have to be honest the maoist-fascist was a new one for me.
Really? I’m surprised you haven’t seen it before. I’ve seen it at least a couple of times, usually just the terminally online Maoist types though, IRL the ones I’ve met just bootlick the CIA, not quite at the same level.
Unfortunately all my local orgs are Maoist or worse. So I’ve had to deal with them a lot. It’s frustrating when local liberals are less frothing at the mouth with hatred for China than our supposed “communists”
Though probably a good call to avoid them, especially online. I’ve never had an enlightening or educational conversation with a Maoist, even when I’ve gone in with an open mind and asked for theory and information from them, they don’t see this ideal educational opportunity as a chance to actually educate, rather, they see it as an opportunity to bash me over the head with how much more they know than I do. And god forbid I ever have questions about their theory, you’d think I just asked if it was OK to shoot their dog.
To be fair, I have met some more chill Maoists, but we rarely if ever spoke about theory, so that’s probably why.
The line on Gonzalo is “if you don’t believe what they tell you about Stalin, why do you believe their “lies” about Gonzalo.” When your ideology is contrarian it’s not a far step to questioning the holocaust.
