In other thread I got vibe that majority of Lemmy users support communism and CCP. Is support for Russia/Putin? Or have I just stumble in a post dominated by those people.
I also read a phrase “lemmy.ml” user. Is lemmy.ml instance considered communist?
I understand there will be more left leaning users in Lemmy compared to Reddit. But I expected moderate left and not radical communist left.
What is your opinion on that?
Russia and Putin are not communist.
I suspect most Lemmy users in that thread are democratic socialists, and not full blown communists.
I made a silly comment in that thread that suggested that I’m a communist when I’m more of a democratic socialist.
Some support communism but no true communist also supports the fascist regimes of Putin or Xi.
I could use some more communism in my life, but I don’t consider myself a communist.
I wouldn’t say so, in fact I would suggest maybe it’s disgustingly neoliberal at times.
Also Putin in his own words is not looking to return to Communism he’s looking for a return to Russian imperialism.
I think it’s more complex and not easy to sort. Mostly your instance managed what you can see. But not every user is directly sorted to what their instance is called to be.
I for example never heard about ml stands for Marxists-Leninist. It is the instance of the devs and is the first getting new versions. And I registered here long time ago. There wasn’t too much instances in the past. Am I a tankie? Noo.
Another question. Why does this post have so many down votes? I have some ideas but I am not sure which is the real reason:
- Asking about generalization could be considered unpopular.
- Are communists down voting me?
- Badly written post. (I mean English is not my first language and I do believe lemmy needs more content and I am trying to go out of my comfort zone and be more active user)
- This topic is just unpopular?
Questions/comments about communism that aren’t positive get a lot of downvotes here.
The main dev of Lemmy is a communist. That doesn’t make everyone here communist. This is an edge community where oversimplified political ideological labels are not applicable. This is a pro community place with a focus on the community without exploitation. That is a community-ist thing. If you’d like to be exploited through stalkerware and data mining to manipulate you for profit, there are plenty of proprietary social platforms out there without any community-ist focus.
Actually read Marx writings before making labels or judgements. You will find that his arguments in the past were much the same as the problems of today. Marx was very much an advocate for democracy. Communism does not mean backwards Russian Bolshevism, and certainly has nothing to do with Putin.
Personally, I’m not for any state involvement in the market. I’m also not a fool. Capitalism is hated by anyone with a tenth of a working brain. The reason for capitalism is that is is the least worst evil. The theoretical separation of governance from the open market enables a mechanism to oust bad actors. The USA is absolutely failing at capitalism. You can not participate in your local market economy, and the market’s consolidated pool of bad actors are directly influencing and manipulating governance. The USA is failing at democracy and capitalism, so maybe have a deep think about idealist principals like Marxism to better understand and reflect upon your own ideals.
The majority? No. But the instances that are, are very loud. Block Lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, and Lemmygrad. That alone will massively improve your experience. BTW, they’re not just communist supporters. They’re tankies, extreme fascists who support militant oppression.
This question calls for a jokey response but I’m struggling to think of one. Of course, it’s true that communists tend to have no sense of humor.
I wouldn’t say that majority of lemmy is communism supporters. But I would say lemmy if (far) left-wing biased. If you express valid, supported by science and statistic, opinion that’s not liberal enough you will still be called fascist, xeno/trans/homo/etc phobe. My advice, don’t a single f*** about it and keep open mind.
Lemmy.world = centrist democrat, it seems to me. It is against the TOS here to talk about the wrong kind of cat food (there was a big drama about that last month) and it tries to be a safe space by blocking everything outside its window (the most informative covid-19 community is on hexbear but you can’t read it here). Lemmy.ml = left wing, “ML” sometimes stands for Marx-Lenin. Lemmygrad is more of a joke(?) but it pretends(??) to be Stalinist.
