Actually, not one of those men personally gave birth out of wedlock!

/s, although it’s technically true.

Scare quotes, probably. This is a very particular sense of “getting”. Like, otherwise, you could read this as a synonym for “receiving”.

Just like you’d be shocked what the Bible says about mega-rich pastors. Or what Judaism says about the magic wire around that segment of New York.

For anyone that was never in a religion, basically, people earnestly follow it, but in order for that to be possible, whatever “it” is tends to be flexible. The scriptures, or oral traditions, are reinterpreted however works for the cool, powerful people.

Eh. They aren’t blocking Saudi ports, and are intercepting things on the Saudi’s behalf.

Unless you mean that as a prediction for the near future, or something.

It’s weird that Africanews is covering this. And it seems unlikely uncertainty about which currency to trust is anything new there.

You’re on .world right now, and most users are something other than Marxist. As far as the they’re concerned, being against Marxist analysis wouldn’t make it less correct.

Although, come to think of it, that most people aren’t Marxists is another area where there’s some apparent bashfulness. So you’re in the minority; sometimes the minority is right!

Yes, but such a line existing isn’t on it’s own a bad thing. Lots of lines exist with something nice on both sides.

Just that it’s not derogatory, at least in that way, and in that context.

Well, who can speak for the Hoxhaists, but if it’s coming from someone outside your community, it’s hardly an accusation of revisionism. Nobody cares if you’re contradicting Stalin, unless Stalin was definitely right.

In China, where there’s money and lives on the line over any disagreements, that would probably be true.

If you’re an American holed up on Lemmy, it’s pretty easy to just say “I like this guy and not the other one”, and they do. Or at least, the vast majority of them, and internally.

It sure looks a whole lot different from what Stalin was doing. If it’s secretly a different manifestation of the same underlying ideas, okay, maybe. But, there’s plenty of people who argue Dengism isn’t actually real Marxism, as well.

It’s just the most obvious word for what we’re talking about. And it’s hard to believe semantic hair-splitting could make anyone that uncomfortable.

it’s just reforms in the 80s and people argue over whether they were good or bad and how much.

I’d expect anyone familiar with Deng would know this. The trick is, it was a very significant departure from how things were before. You went straight from don’t be rich, and actually just being some kind of authority is questionable, to an era where the slogan was “to get rich is glorious”.

IIRC, there’s a school of homeopaths or chiropractors or something that still like Lamarck better. If we were talking about them, using Darwinist for the opposing majority party would make complete sense. And, if hypothetically, young earth creationists and Lamarkians were both more numerous, and both disagreed with Darwinists more than each other about what evolution is…

I don’t think socialist-who-likes-markets-and-billionares would be better. Or, to be more fair, socialist-who-likes-markets-and-billionares-in-the-unique-Chinese-context-and-character. Just saying socialists wouldn’t work, because that’s not who is meant, for the most part.

Okay, glad to hear this addressed from one of you.

According to China itself, Deng Xiaoping thought is a thing, no?

Well, the state part of state-capitalist is right out, now. Individual people own most things, and there’s weak/nonexistent regulation. When intervention happens, it’s kind of personal to whatever siloviki at whatever place in the pecking order. They can make sure you get away with stuff at one end, or voluntell extra “donations” to whatever account or puppet organisation at the other, and often do both.

(And, it’s run by the people who killed the USSR, so you shouldn’t like both)

Okay. Mao wouldn’t have been on here shitposting; he’d be organising IRL. Be more like Mao. OP might at least be able to plead disinterest in any actual results.

Some other readers are going to think this is bad, because I’m telling you to be a terrorist. That’s not it exactly; if you go into real life organising spaces out of earnest moral-ideological concern, you’re mostly going to learn. The people who immediately shoot something up, at random, were always looking to shoot something up, because it’s not actually a good political strategy.

It’s definitely more shitposting. Keep it up! /s

(That applies to both of you, but only one is comparing themselves to Mao)

Do they? It seems more like they’re looking for a noble-seeming outlet for a bunch of very harmful impulses. Like, if they were just worried about Palestine or inequality, there’s much less outrageous and much more effective ways to go about it. Instead, they shitpost.

And real Hitler isn’t even on the list!

I’d respond seriously, but you designed that comment not to be readable, so why bother.

Yeah, that one was a stretch. Liking Putin or Dugin, on the other hand, at least makes you adjacent.

Their left-wing identity does not prevent them from being ardent admirers of the fascist ideologue Alexander Dugin and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger.

It’s because the socialist stuff is decoration, and none of the socialist tenets, say about equality or tolerance, actually matters to them. It’s a conspiracy group, a la flat Earth, just one that inverts geopolitics rather than physics.

They’re still here, and the anarchists are still here. It seems like every other serious actor on the left has been reabsorbed into Liberalism, with the end of the Cold War.