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
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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
Ooh! You got the coveted Maoist-Fascist connection! Funny how they’ll gladly side with the CIA or actual open fascists before siding with traditional MLs. Almost like they have no real understanding of theory at all and some of them just want an excuse for adventurism. 🤔
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.
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.
That is basically seething distilled in text form. /r/communism continued to be terrible.
They are just so unpleasant. I remember when I was a baby leftist trying to learn more, and feeling so distressed in every interaction I had with /r/communism, that it probably delayed my progress by a few months. I thought, these are not people I want to meet or interact with in real life.
Reading and learning about how communists like Huey P Newton or Fidel interact with people, always with respect, always with the idea that they truly want what’s best for you and humanity, and seek to enlighten rather than alienate, you realize that /r/communism is trying their best to do the exact opposite and alienate every single person they can. This is why reddit lets them exist, but bans other genuine communist subs.
Their ideal is the Gonzaloite terrorist killing peasants for not being revolutionary enough.
