I’m running around in leftist circles a lot since beginning of last year. I first got introduced to socialism through anarchism [stereotype alert] started to read and went pretty straight to communist and then ML pretty recently. The shoe is still new but it fits very well so far.

Whenever I bring up socialism and communism (let alone ML), I get a lot of flak from other leftists and especially from anarchists. Yet, I feel like a couple anarchist agitators sound like MLs just cosplaying. It would make sense as anarc kids are totally open for socialist ideas if one lets out the “science” part which irritates me a lot.

Does anyone have similar experience or is able to explain?

Btw pls let me know if this is inappropriate to ask. I dont mean to offend anyone.

  • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    When I see a whole swath of people cheering for some guy who travelled to NYC to eliminate someone who was actually himself trying to fix a system he was put in charge of

    What?

    • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 days ago

      There are maybe a few hundred people (if not a few thousand) in this ML community. For every one person who thinks what happened was overkill, another five are praising the killer, hence the memes that paint him as a literal saint. Surely an unreluctance for violence isn’t a pillar or prerequisite for Marxist-Leninism (especially in a discussion about people hiding their affiliations), right? I’m not cheering for either side, but one side resorted to murder when they could’ve, I don’t know, sued.