I have just come to a Realisation that i stand nowhere near where i thought i would in the political compass
I was a far left extremist before seeing this post and ask myself where I am now
Well gosh darn it I think my son might be an extreme leftissst
What is described has no correlation with the symbols.
They actually are the symbols of the workers and do belong to the descriptions.
It’s just that many bad actors have and are trying to steal the symbols, such as the Soviet Union and China. Those have no correlation with leftism but people associate them to the symbols
I’m usually brigaded by fascist-minded and reactionary accounts
Not allowed to call out dictatorships
Same response as a “Swastika is just a sun symbol”
A symbol can change meaning depending on history. Hammer and sickle is the symbol of oppression, suffering, dictatorship, imperialism and inequality, and it’s meaning is influenced by the actions of soviet union and china.
I didn’t say against that. The fascist powers have made their mark on the symbols that is true. As I said, it is what people associate.
Do swastikas, hammers, stars etc. have positive meanings originally? Yes
Have fascist dictatorships ussd those symbols with horrible atrocities in the past and even today? Yes
Do people generally associate the latter? Yes
-Genocide
-Getting Genocided*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist_mass_killings
-not communists
-not communists
-my Lemmy homepage?
Edit: -ah, yes, also not communists.
@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml – Why did you remove this comment? It wasn’t in violation of any of the rules
Ordered by Stalin, leader of the Communist Party.
WTF is this? People finding their way from lemmingrad here?
Comes to a place literally built by communists to tell communists to fuck off. You are a normal clown, and we’ve dealt with your kind before.
