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
There are American leftists who like Gonzalo?
r/TrueAnnon is fucking garbage. Edgy jokes and slurs are accepted, mods barely even enforce their own rules. Honestly does more harm than good. Glad I found this site
Do they use other slurs besides the r word too??? Already avoided going there because of that, damn…
r/communism has always been a controlled opposition type thing. Any real communists get banned.
True of all leftist and even liberal subreddits. I remember getting banned from one with a very threatening DM after I called out a nazi.
It’s a sure-fire way to know if something is controlled opposition: if you make a genuinely effective push against fascism and they ban you for it. It doesn’t cost the opponent anything to put on leftist aesthetics or even to support leftism itself, but if you start suggesting ML/MLM/Diamat that’s genuinely threatening to them as it has a chance of turning the controlled opposition into real opposition. Much easier to keep the left placated since they know they’re not going to be able to trick them to the right. You know, that thing every single anarchist community does.
How many internet leftists even know what Dialectical Materialism even is? All their knowledge of communism comes from the right.
I only posted there once and I got permabanned and when I asked why they never replied. That place is toxic.
r/TrueAnon is basically the only left-wing sub still worth engaging with at this point imo.
Every other one is either full of vaushite radlibs or the most annoying twitter maoists possible.
Yeah that’s true, but I’m old enough that most of the people active there could be my kids lol
The TrueAnon crowd seem to be more my age, older millenial/younger genx, so I suppose that might be why I prefer it
is trueanon expressly communist or is there like all sorts of anti-imperialists in it? The subreddit I mean, I know sometimes discords/subreddits/podcasts/youtube channels for the same thing have very different communities
The core group of users are all commies, but of course random strays will wander in from time to time
