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If your first instinct as a westerner is to criticize and lecture 3rd world communist movements, instead of learning from their successes, then you have internalized the patronizing arrogance of the colonial system you claim to oppose.

  • pineapple@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    Dang I didn’t know there were successful communist nations in developing countries.

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      40 minutes ago

      Dang I didn’t know there were successful communist nations in developing countries.

      Funnily enough, two started off as developing and ended up as world superpowers.

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      19 hours ago

      What do you call Cuba, China, Vietnam, Laos, the former Burkina Fasso under Sankara, or the former USSR? Do you sincerely believe those countries had a better standard of living for all people, especially workers and peasants, under capitalism? Isn’t the great fall from grace of the USSR proof that the benefits their people had received were indeed the fruits of socialism and not the “rising tide” of global capitalist development (which was actually exacerbating poverty in the global South outside of the socialist countries)?