Exploring the background of randoms who volunteer bad posts online is fun.

Dissent Magazine, shameless anticommunists who cheered for the US Invasion of Afghanistan and backed US Regime Change operations in HK, fantasizes about Rosa being some kind of whiz-kid to Lenin's meanie.
It's all so petty, so high-school, so mired in projection and self-importance.

It may seem insignificant, but you can understand a lot about the utter and relentless failure of socialism in North America by paying attention to the attitude of people like these towards Lenin.
The self-satisfied and completely unearned sense of superiority is well-reflected in the guy's TL—Rosa-over-Lenin finds a home amid Ed Markey and Ezra Klein RTs.

Notice the stark contrast to Ho Chi Minh's fire and sense of purpose:
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6 Feb
China, Korea... same thing, just type away! Image
These ghouls *hate* Asian people.

It's honestly palpable from their writing.
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5 Feb
I love when people cite this lunatic as their "scholarly source" on the USSR.
🏴: USSR Authoritarian Totalitarian State Capitalist Gulag Red Tsar Chernobyl 80 Million Dead

me: what's your source?

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Anne Applebaum is a guttering example of how far you can go in capitalism if you're completely shameless and willing to say exactly what powerful people want to hear.
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4 Feb
Fidel Castro: "Unity does not mean uniformity. We cannot conceive of a Latin America integrated in a unity based on uniformity."

Some literal anarcho fascist from the genocidal penal colony of Australia: "I personally feel this obliterates my difference." Image
The famous "imperial expansion" of Cuba and China.

You fools don't just speak in soundbites and shallow pattern-matching, it's actually rotted your capacity to engage with reality in any material way.
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28 Jan
POLITICO just published a hilarious anti-China tract, and I recommend people to seriously put some effort into 1) reading it, 2) contextualizing it.
Anyone discussing China and playing down the "White Supremacy" angle is leading you astray.

DC Lanyards are completely shook.
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Kennan's 1948 memo is an exceptionally revealing white supremacy manifesto, that very clearly defines that the threat is *Communism*, not some vague gushy non-ideological realpolitik battle for resources.
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28 Jan
Adam Curtis apparently is threatening us with another of his nihilistic, both-sides-are-bad, "works" against "totalitarianism."

Remember who Adam Curtis is before pushing his jaded socialist garbage.

h/t @jcfrancisco
There's literally no reason to read, listen to, or watch the works of British anti-communists in 2021.

If you were ever forced to read Orwell, you've had more than enough for one lifetime.
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People will sit there and let Curtis pump libertarian sewage into their minds for two straight hours, then turn around and mourn gravely about massification and consumerism.
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27 Jan
This is fascist garbage.

I gave this guy the benefit of the doubt a few times, but there's no way to talk about "treasured US values" without stomping all over indigenous and Black struggles.
Not long ago this guy was arguing that drug users deserved violence while making a narrow "cultural" exception for alcohol, basically ignoring the ultra-racist US context.

Now he's talking about "unique US values."

Connect the dots.
Mr. "Anti-woke anti-ipdol" over here is trying to pull the "I'm a Latin American" card, blissfully unaware that I'm Peruvian and have traveled extensively within my country, including shanty towns.

What now, Zizek?
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