The sub sidebar has Mao in it lmao what the fuck even is their stance

Anyway the fact that hasn’t even quarantined them yet means they aren’t a threat to the status quo, and if the status quo isn’t afraid of them they’re not very good communists.

what theirs and yours stances on china?

did you got banned for saying it is socialist or capitalist?

r/communism is one of the many slogan leftist subs in Reddit that self-identifies as leftist and then help the Western European diaspora tank anyone that threatens Pax Americana authoritarianism in their hypocritical opposition towards their own tankiejerker slogan. One of the indicators of the impersonation is the refusal to accept any belief other than the lies by Pax Americana, Bretton Woods institutions, and Western European diaspora. Another indicator is their hostile reaction towards any evidence that prove that Communist countries has success of human rights or economic advancement. Another indicator is their use of redefinition of dictatorship to mean authoritarianism or totalitarianism to confuse people or their use of vaguely defined authoritarianism or totalitarianism as meaningless slurs.

It’s a right of passage for many leftists, don’t worry about it.

Seems like they should read some theory

Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!).

This is the second old thread I’ve bumped but I searched r/communism to see what people’s thoughts and experiences were here on Lemmygrad. Not long ago I had some free time and added some new books to my collection, mainly some of Stalin’s writings that I hadn’t read and I went along with my partner who was working to stay in the middle of nowhere - perfect for study. But I wanted a platform for asking questions/aiding my study and checked out reddit for the first time. Was banned in r/communism fairly quickly for a couple of days for helping a newbie with some suggestions for reading on a certain topic which was basically some ML theory supplemented with a couple of texts that were from bourgeois media sources and a book in which Chomsky had written a fairly decent account of the basic history of the topic, but these sources were relevant and helpful in understanding the topic in question (I can’t remember what the topic was).

Later I was banned for quite a well-thought out ML analyses/comment in a thread that was “upvoted” many times but the mods didn’t like it and banned me without giving a reason. I saw other subreddits and found the “you’re not a real communist until you’ve been banned from r/communism” thing being said and found decent comrades but initially I felt really sh*tty about it. It started to make sense to me in that they embody the worst stereotypes about “communists”: disagreeable, hostile and all the rest of it which obviously isn’t true at all given how much of our work consists of education - education never ends. I saw other people suggest that it was a fed-run operation to turn people - especially newbies - away from understanding communism/communist theory and to put them off entirely. If it could even make me momentarily second guess myself then I can’t imagine what kind of effect this would have on someone just starting out.

But yes, fed-run and they have an unreasonably dogmatic rule which is something like: “mandatory: read Settlers” as in you must read what is a disputed work or you are not welcome.

For such a hostile environment supposedly run by and for communists, I can only understand it as being designed to put people off of engaging with communist theory/praxis etc. and this makes me think that its a psyop/fed run or whatever. The J. Sakai thing being “mandatory” was a major sign that something was wrong IMO, regardless of what comrades think of that text.