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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.
This l find a general attitude among the Westerners.
I wrote my thesis about how we can learn from Cuba's green farming movements (because they were essentially locked out of capitalism) and was criticized for it.
What are some succesful 3rd world communist movements? Asking for a friend
According to some theories, China.
I don't know why they even left Reddit. Were they really that mad about app development?
Depends which wave of newcomers. Some in more recent migrations just got banned for criticizing musk or endorsing Luigism, which is pretty milquetoast stuff any old lib can do.
Reddit is not even "liberal" anymore. The people on the conservative sub will say that it is but its been shifting rightward for years. There are a lot of people getting permad over things that in the past would have had broad agreement.
I am not only on .world (actually started out there and moved over here), but yeah, for me that was the last straw. That official app is just an affront.
in first world nations we are insidiously brainwashed to believe that there WERE NO SUCCESSES among Communist movements.
awareness of those successes must be promoted.
start with "hey this really successful thing happened" AND THEN reveal "btw that was communism"
May I recommend a book: The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins. Humanized Communism in a way that profoundly changed my thinking.
Idk how anyone can defend how we (the US) does shit. Especially after this year. If you weren't already privy to how monstrous we can be now you are, and now we pulled any good shit we might have done, too.
I remember watching a documentary about North Korea and one of the guides was talking about how people in NK and Asia more broadly don't necessarily want to live under the same liberal-democratic capitalist system that the west tries to impress on them.
How arrogant are we to act like we have it all figured out and that countries outside of Europe and North America are backwards shitholes?