Basically if you're a communist you're already on the left. So if you're to the left of communists, what are you? An ultra communist.

They're the people who can usually recite whole quotes by heart and have bookmarks and notes in all their books. But when it comes to translating that theory into the real world, nothing is ever good enough because it doesn't follow what Lenin or Bordiga wrote to the letter. They're the embodiment of if you can't do it perfectly, then don't do anything at all.

Everyone click on the All button and start participating in federation.

Worst thing that can happen is the liberals complain.

But if you're going to be participating on lemmy.ml please don't make the admins' job harder, respect the instance rules. They're already working overtime to handle the influx of new users across the software.

The liberal's China: when it succeeds, it's because capitalism. When it fails, it's because communism. Truly a genius way of looking at the world.

you can’t possibly argue that his regime in the USSR was not authoritarian in nature

We don't. We recognize that the State is a tool of oppression for one class over another, and will always be "authoritarian".

Yeah that was essentially my reply in the rejection email:

How can there be a discussion when you don't even know the material you want to "discuss" against? Do you see us barging into college classes and start arguing with the prof on biochemistry, climate engineering or pharmacology? To assume you are more knowledgeable than us is not only disrespectful, it reeks of self-righteousness. You believe your NATO-friendly brand of socialism to be correct, and everything else to be incorrect, but you've clearly never engaged with Marxism in any capacity, otherwise you would know the abolition of the family has nothing to do with "breaking up families to raise kids in Huxleyan labs". You're like a 6th grader who mistakenly entered a college class; way out of your depth.

Read our pages, read our library, and then come back to ask about a discussion. It's time to graduate from fiction and kids books (we're surprised you didn't namedrop Animal Farm) and into real political analysis if you're actually serious about this.

Yo as per our survey, more than 60% of our users don't identify as white, cis het males. Additionally we have users from literally over the world. Waiting to see Beehaw's survey.

there are more communists in the state of Kerala, India, than there are anarchists in the world. Your whiteness shows.

even those more radical than you

Who is more radical than MLs? You, who spend your time trolling online? 😂

We are "authoritarian". We just don't pretend that we're not. "Authoritarian" is a meaningless word which is what I said originally, every State that has ever existed is authoritarian: it enacts authority against a specific class. If you agree with Engels' quote then you agree with this.

You should get checked for brainworms, coughing fits are a symptom.

Lemmygrad is paid for by muad'dibber, the VPS isn't terribly expensive

It's a great thread.

Have you considered not saying fascist stuff?

There are some assumptions that are always safe bets to make, and this is one of them

About fucking time

But... we are the fed instance 🥺

wait there's tankies here?? wtf what kind of instance did I join

I'm not worried.

We don't have aspirations at lemmygrad to become the biggest or most active instance. We're happy to have a space where we can be with each other. If we wanted to be big we wouldn't be running a communist instance. In fact, we get a lot of new account requests, but we deny a lot of them for being ultras or anarchists (some we let through if they seem good).

Those new arrivals don't understand the nature of federation and the nature of open source software. Like others have said, they want reddit just on a different domain name. Then let them have their Reddit, I'd rather they confine themselves to a single space than spread all over the fediverse.

Frankly Lemmygrad can survive without federation, what's important is that Lemmy is the most advanced open source software to run a link aggregator, no other project comes close. Someone in the reddit thread was saying that because of the devs' political leanings, the project would never grow and this is exactly the type of elitism reddit produces. This person discovered Lemmy yesterday, but has very strong opinions on it and apparently understands the ins and outs of the project. Meanwhile the Lemmy project keeps growing and is the most robust and popular open source alternative to Reddit. But we're sorry our volunteer developers are not slaving away hard enough to produce your toys, great Redditor 🙏

Anyone can use lemmy, and what we should start thinking about is when the fascists will start opening their instances. There is no way you can prevent that at a fundamental code level; lemmy cannot stop anyone from opening their instance. All you can do is defederate from them. The fascists are probably not going to start opening their instances because of said politics from the devs though, so once again tankies are saving libs from fascism and get ostracized for it lol. They've had 4 years to try and coopt this project and they haven't done it.

There is no way we will defederate from Lemmy.ml or that Lemmy.ml will defederate from us. People can clamor for it all they want, it's never gonna happen. If they're not happy on lemmy.ml then they can join one of many dead liberal instances that keep popping up because they want to be administrators of their own space rather than work with others.

We've handled an "exodus" before (they go back to Reddit in the end no matter how much they criticise it), we've handled trolls, we've handled DDoS attacks, they can't bring anything we haven't seen before.

If we're going to redo the survey, please let's fix the ethnicity question beforehand!!

How would you prefer this question be asked, and which options should it have?

We will declare PPW on beehaw until they agree to our demands if we have to /s

Xi is a marxist-leninist but the PRC recognizes Xi Jinping Thought (like they had MZT etc for all general secretaries) https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping_Thought

You should follow the good example of your username buddy