• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    What would those means be? Because I don’t remember the far left trying to stage a coup so that they could begin their genocidal dictatorship. And they’re still planning that genocidal dictatorship.

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      7 months ago

      Oh so you like to pretend that “the far left” exists in any quantity in the United States and the US is what you’re talking about? Lol.

      Have you seriously not heard of Tankies?

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        7 months ago

        “There are sheltered teenagers on the internet with dumb political views, which is indistinguishable from actual attempted sedition by current members of government”

        Couldn’t hit you over the head with it any harder.

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            7 months ago

            Show me one case of far left political organisation taking control of any country worldwide in the last 60 years.

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              7 months ago

              I can only think of one example.

              It is my understanding, and please someone correct me if I’m wrong, that after Nepal ended its monarchy in the 1990s, a democratically elected Marxist-Leninist party took control.

              And then they lost the elections eventually and a socialist party took control.

              But that’s all I can come up with.

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                  7 months ago

                  Sorry, I must have misunderstood you. I thought you were saying the world has been moving steadily rightward (which, in my observation, it sadly has) and there were so few examples of things moving to the left in any country in the past 50 years considering corporations are the ones actually pulling the strings.

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                    7 months ago

                    It has been moving steadily rightwards. What I meant is that at no point in the last 60 years has any far-left group forcibly taken power unlike far-right groups.

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        7 months ago

        I’m not sure what quantity has to do with anything.

        And Tankies are not far left because they embrace authoritarianism, which is an inherently conservative idea.

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          7 months ago

          Authoritarian regimes may be either autocratic or oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party or the military.

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            7 months ago

            And Tankies embrace both types of regimes. They love the autocratic Kim regime in North Korea and the PRC and their excuse is that both countries call themselves communist.