cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65174189
Florida public schools will force students to take a Heritage Foundation-backed class on the “evils of communism.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65174189
Florida public schools will force students to take a Heritage Foundation-backed class on the “evils of communism.”
I’m a GenXer and I have literally been fed anti-communist propaganda since I was a very small child. It’s only in the last 20 years or so that I finally “woke up” and realized how absolute bullshit it all really is.
I don’t think this is necessarily due to age. I think it’s just that circumstances have made capitalism look so bad that you realize that the propaganda was exactly that.
Also gen X & I remember always playing as the U.S.S.R. in any game that let me choose because of the absolute banger of a national anthem!
The Communists Have the Music
https://youtu.be/l_rbFhbcbT8
I went to one of the very posh UK universities where they’re split into smaller colleges, and my friend’s college would play the Soviet National anthem at the end of every big party that was hosted in the college bar. The college student union had even passed a motion mandating that.
It was a surreal experience to see. A large chunk of people loved this tradition, but for very different reasons. There were a decent number who were straight up communists (or at least sufficiently left wing that they loved the political subversiveness of celebrating this song at such a posh university); Some people liked it ironically, for the meme (of the anthem-enjoyers, this faction were typically the poshest of the bunch); meanwhile, some people just thought the song was a banger — in my view, on this matter, these were the most based of them
The Civ 1 music was menacing and awesome. It reminded me of the Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back.
first, so theres no confusion. i am against this program and its a facist move. i want to take a detour on your comment.
this article is more about socialism but people always confuse the two. i am a capitalist who believes in socialist programs. i believe in public health care, free public schooling (include universoty), and universal basic income. please use mybtaxes to pay for all of it.
capitalism is about owning your own busisness, ehich i agree with and does not conflict with everything socialism. not everything needs to be privately owned but we should have the freedom to privately own a business.
but your comment wasnt on socislism but communism. i have an honest question and not a snarky one, if you really love communism, why not move to a communist country? i genuinely want to know. communism doesnt support private property either and thats very important to me. i am also genx and for most of my kife, i have been happy with my country. my ideal president was barrack obama.
now that this country is becoming religous facist at the highest levels, i have thought aboit leaving so again , i wasnt being snarky. if i loved communism, i wouod have left.
sorry for the long comment, i judt hope you see i have a genuine curiosity, which is hard to communicate in a forum.
You say this is honest, but this question has never been asked in good faith. Is the only reason you live where you live because the economic system it uses? Do you have no ties to the area besides? No family or history, or national pride? No job or property, or friends, or anything else? Do you speak every language and are accepted by and accepting of every culture, so you can just go anywhere and feel at home?
Anyone who asks this can fuck right off. At minimum, seeing issues and wanting to fix them for other people is enough of a reason to stay and try to change things. If you can’t see why people don’t want to uproot their lives to go somewhere else, even if that somewhere else existed and was exactly what they wanted, you aren’t actually being honest.
ibwas being honest and said that i am thinking of moving, depending on how midterms go. i do tjink changing things for the better isbworthbstaying but I don’t think communism is for the better. its not in the identoty, which is why I asked. since i am contemplating leaving witht the facist direction this country is taking , i wanted to know their reason
First, there are no truly communist countries. Just authoritarian ones that use communism as a method of control. And now we live in an authoritarian country that uses capitalism as a method of control.
I also didn’t say anything about “loving communism”, whatever that is supposed to mean.
Prager U doesn’t make a distinction between socialism and communism. That’s the same propaganda we all got growing up in the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. Conflating one thing with another. And that is the problem. Prager U is going to tell kids that paying taxes so that a poor person can eat is communism and taking your property away to give it to someone who doesn’t want to work for a living. They’re going to tell kids that taxing rich people will prevent them from having enough money to create jobs for good hard working Americans. And that giving things away for free will make people not want to work.
These are the same lies we grew up with. Only with the failed state of the USSR as a “good example” of how communism(socialism) always fails. Ignoring the fact that it was deep corruption and authoritarian rule that actually destroyed the USSR.
Edit:
No, it is not. It’s about using the labor of other people to enrich yourself.
Maybe it’s about acquiring capital.
no capitalism is and only is, the private ownership of commerce
Literally the definition of capitalism is private ownership of the means of production.
Commerce is the act of selling and buying goods.
You should… Idk, get better at thinking?
If you don’t like people with a different world view why don’t you move to israel?
Presumably the best way to fight Israeli genocide is outside of Israel;
the best way to fight Uighur genocide is outside of the PRC;
the best way to fight Iranian theo-fascism is outside of Iran;
and the best way to fight capitalism, is outside of a capitalist country.
One could go to, say, Cuba, or North Korea, or any country one thinks is truly, or at least mostly, Communist, or maybe a rebel-held area, and fight against capitalism and/or build socialism.
there is never was aUighur genocide.
that is western made up anti-China BS
They will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
I loved the 100’s of ‘leaked’ mugshots from a few years ago of the ‘prisoners’. This was with them probably.
From Adrian Zenz the religious nut and rabid Sinophobe
All quite good generic Uyghur faces but with a button in weird places and other anomalies what we know recognize as AI artefacts.
Didn’t even bother to do some Photoshopping.
BTW don’t they have orange suits in Guantanamo where they hold Uyghur terrorists?
FWIW, I got it from wp:Persecution of Uyghurs in China; though yes, both the extreme left and extreme right tend not to like Wikipedia.
As it’s a non-free image, I think it’s intentionally degraded in order to better argue fair use.
Also, FWIW for any lurker: wp:Adrian Zenz.
Maybe the Uighur genocide should be put into wv:Category:Wikidebates.
The Guantanamo detentions are, of course, unjust, as was the state-sanctioned murder of Osama bin Ladan (who should have been tried in the US proper, with Bill of Rights followed (but alas, Obama had an election to win)).
That said, I don’t think 100 000s, much less millions, have gone to re-education camps in Guantanamo;
and yes, the Chinese commies will say that the Uighurs weren’t extracted from Central Asia, like America has extracted many from that area—I’ll grant them that; but as I’m a bit sympathetic to anarchism and at times regard nation-states as fictions, state cults, with 100s of millions of adherents, it’s somewhat of a moot point to me.
It’s like the current US-Iran war: they’re both wrong, and I wish neither Trump and Hegseth, nor the theo-fascists who rule Iran, success.
Indeed, ALL the anti-China Uyghur propaganda traces back to ‘guided by God’ Adrian Zenz.
And wikipedia is indeed garbage for anything political since it’s easily manipulated and astroturfed.
Does knowing that simple fact make you extreme?
I’m sure you have evidence for those numbers.
And of the ‘genocide’.
Palestine is massively controlled and has much lower smartphone ownership rate.
Yet videos from atrocities reach us all the time.
Where are those from Xinjiang? Double the population.
Yes China has jails and prisoners, also in Xinjiang, shocker!
Because they have criminals like everywhere else.
Even terrorists, funded as always by the west to serve a purpose, as in Syria and Somalia,etc…
When they hijack planes, bomb buses and do suicide attacks they get put in jail.
Has China do everything perfectly and with velvet gloves? Probably not.
Nobody’s perfect.
The situation has been under control for a long time now and the vast majority are normal people living normal lives.
Of course the western propaganda machine exagerated, lied and keeps milking this now non-issue.
As they verifiably lie about any country they don’t like.
Obama had indeed an election to win.
If they really got Bin Laden after 15 years I’m sure they would’ve showned the videos of the heroic raid all day long.
But nothing.
And if you believe the batshit crazy story that they took his body but somehow for some reason decided to throw his body overboard I have some land to sell you.
And no, Iran is not wrong, only the aggressor the US.
But anarchists wouldn’t know better and for some reason they always end up fighting some "authoritarian regime’ taking the side of the authoritarian imperialist western regime.
But anyway you believe what you want and maybe you’ll inform yourself and possibly grow out of the edgy teen anarchist fase.
If you’re older then you might be a lost cause.
Anyway enough said.
Bye