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  • As an Anarchist that sounds nice and I might have even belived their pretty words if I havent been explicitly censored for calling out Russia and China. Also Blahaj is 100% a leftist space (I assume that they were referring to Blahaj), just not a tankie space and that pisses them off.

    No leftist unity with fake leftists, power to the workers not the ruling class

  • I wonder if these people will ever figure out how sick Americans on the left are of hearing the word “liberals” used as a hate term. Yes, entirely different meaning, but it’s a great way to get non-conservative Americans to reflexively think whatever they’re reading is totally stupid shit.

  • The thing about "We can have an instance without sectarianism!" ignores that, Trotskyists splitting at the atomic level aside, the 'sects' are often founded on fundamentally different values, not just whether Jesus is homoousios or homoiousios.

    In the end, this means that any dispute between sects will fundamentally raise the question of values, and no community nor authority is neutral on the matter of values. Which views count as following which values (for example, if someone regarded 'racial equality' as including 'racial segregation') is a fundamental question that, itself, invites sectarian splitting.

    Ultimately, you can create a broad space, but the idea that all of the previous anti-sectarian attempts have failed simply for not being anti-sectarian enough is just... not so. Most of those 'sectarian' spaces are the end result of anti-sectarian attempts - because you have to draw a line somewhere, and wherever you draw the line, a large percentage of people will be upset about where it is.

    Especially leftists, since we often revel in the broader value implications of small points.

  • I would like .world to defed them give the new normie Lemmy users a better experience. I still want .ee to not defed them cos I do find it extraordinarily entertaining to argue with them.

    • I don't mind .ml users on .world so much. The moderation on .ml is fucking terrible, don't get me wrong, but while shitty views are most common from .ml users, I don't think they're disruptive or excessively hostile compared to other instances.

  • Huh. I'm kind of surprised that he's using big-C Communism. I guess it could be intentional.

    I'd kind of think that most people on the left would be wanting to talk about little-c communism.

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