• benoit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As a naive 20 y/o I “moved” to China and lived there for two years.

    It really didn’t feel like communism at all…

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    I have spent some time in a couple of them, and a possible future career option is actually a transfer to China. It is part of the reason I took the job I have now. I have been studying chinese specifically in case that pans out.

    I am sure there would be considerable adjustments, I have lived most of my life in Japan at this point, but I would definitely welcome the opportunity.

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              Cuban Spanish is its own beast, I think it’s like speaking California-American English to a person with a thick Scottish accent, you kinda have to slow down a bit until you get used to it. Source: am a Mexican native Spanish speaker who’s traveled to Cuba.

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                  Ah, word. It’s what most US-ians in movies sound like because of hollywood and therefore it’s mostly what folks consider “American English”. It’s not the default though, because there’s also western/texas/deep south english which is your typical cowboy to hillbilly range of accents seen in wild west movies, or when coastal libs do that annoying thing here equating all southerners to inbred reactionaries. The Midwestern accent is a bit on the stereotypical Canadian side, at least to me, and the New York/Boston/New England accent is also sharply distinct. AAVE (African American Vernacular) can also differ among regions and is different from how non-Black US-ians talk in many cases.

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    No. Our mission as Marxism-Leninist is to do the revolution in ours countries. Go to live to a socialist country is a bad option to do that.

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      Our mission as Marxists-Leninists is to aid the worldwide expansion of communism and to defend the interests of the working class. There’s nothing written forbidding you from crossing borders.

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        If I move to one socialist state I cannot fight for my class. Your vission is like, I go to a site that have my ideologic and this is all.

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          That’s absurd and nonsensical, unless you find that “fighting for your class” is a synonym with “directly fighting against the bourgeoisie that oppresses you”… In which case it’s only absurd. The fight for your class does not end the moment you’ve defeated your own national bourgeoisie.

          Workers who participate in the growth and improvement of the quality of life in socialist states do fight for the working class. Otherwise we could claim that workers in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and so on did not contribute for the wellbeing of the proletariat, which is obviously wrong. Fighting for your class does not necessarily have to involve picking up a banner nor a rifle there where the bourgeoisie rules.

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            Im agree with you. But in too many case people go to live to socialist state and didnt fight any more. Obviously all the workes o Soviet Union is an example for all the working class in the word. We have to take that example and continuos her example in our territory for the liberation of the all class.

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              Even then, being somewhere else does not mean you cannot fight for the cause of the proletariat back in your home country. Lenin spent a while living in Switzerland and Finland, all while still working on what would finally amount to the October Revolution.

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    Yes. Three problems:

    1. Language barrier for 4/5 of them
    2. One I speak the language of, but the climate is unbearable to me.
    3. As developing countries that AES states are, those that have the same profession as me have overall worse living standards than in my part of the world.

    I am going to move anyway, but not to a socialist country (for now).

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    Part of me still wants to stay and fight in the U.S., but more and more I believe that its the equivalent of trying to stop a tsunami with a riot shield. And I feel incredibly guilty for feeling this way, but I am hoping/planning to permanently move to China one day.

    Every single day in the U.S. is like gambling with your life. I don’t want to suffer and die in this fascist shithole, and I know that I can still help people no matter where I go. But I feel that I owe it to my family and my SO to get us to a better and safer place.