I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      This is Bizarro world vibes based history. Read a fucking book literally any book. Stalin lead the USSR after Lenin lead the revolution founded on the principles of communism which were developed by Marx.

    • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      72·
      9 months ago

      Marxism-leninism was first synthesized by Stalin. Stalinism isn’t a thing, but Stalin was a Marxist-leninist. Stalin was a Communist. Marx was an authoritarian communist as well.

      “tankie” is just a red-scare pejorative for communists.

      • Ataraxia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        And I’m a unicorn. You can call yourself anything you want but it doesn’t make it true.

      • Commiejones@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        14·
        9 months ago

        Stalinism is a thing. Just like Leninism, Maoism and Dengism are things. Each of them is just a interpretation of Marxism. They each critique, adapt and expand on the previous iterations of Marxism to fit new conditions.

        • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          41·
          9 months ago

          I don’t really agree. Stalin’s thoughts can be summed up in his synthesis of Marx and Lenin. There isn’t a “Stalinism” separate from Marxism-leninism, but his contribution to MLism was vital.

          I also don’t really agree that Dengism is a thing. It’s a convenient shorthand Maoists use to describe modern China, but I don’t think Deng saw his contributions as separate from SWCC.

          Also also, I don’t think you can fairly characterize modern Maoism as Mao’s interpretation of MLism.

          All of these are very pedantic, so it’s very much ok if we don’t agree here! 😁