• Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The fact that this still got 14 downvotes. Wow…

    Edit: Also these BrainInABox and Cowbee communist apologists are really begging for a block or even a ban. Absolutely despicable. Might they be bots or trolls of somekind? They seem to have an awful lot of time on their hands.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      Just a bit of background, given that you’re on a 12 day old account, Lemmy in general has a lot of Communists of various types, for a number of reasons:

      1. The lead developers are all Communists

      2. Lemmy is an anti-capitalist response to Reddit in design, it’s an attempt to cover for the failings of Reddit resulting from its profit-driven nature

      3. Choosing Lemmy over Reddit requires some degree of ideological conviction, as Reddit is far more popular to begin with.

      As for myself, I’m not a troll. I am a Communist, specifically a Marxist-Leninist, I even made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list. Further, this community in particular, c/LateStageCapitalism, is run by Communists and the express purpose is to critique Capitalism from the Left, I’m not breaking any rules by following the purpose of the Comm.

      Hope that helps!