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it IS weird, and mostly heretical.

You are so high on yourself

Too much tankie bullshit probably

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how nice for you and “the cause.” you can stop replying to me now.

yep.

well, you didn’t here.

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they would be able to engage me, the human in front of them, without all the baggage of the movement establishing preconceptions.

ok buddy. good luck with that.

that’s good. don’t lie, have standards.

i wouldn’t say it’s for “optics,” but you have to know your interlocutor. if the person is nervous about legitimate abuses in AES, acknowledging failures openly is more honest and real than dancing about to make excuses for them. owning failings is human, and would be a distinct departure from capitalism, that’s for sure.

but i get you, capitalism as a system is unironically constantly using force to extinguish you. i get it. it’s not an enviable position.

“You uncritically accept the bourgeois narrative”

you don’t know anything about me to make such claims.

citizenry can feel nostalgia for lots of reasons, and i’m not defending capitalism here. but that doesn’t erase the real lived trauma of the ppl in my life who have fled both the USSR and Venezuela.

cool bro. you do you. you’re just not the guy i’m looking for, i guess. maybe the next one.

no, i’m not implying that. it would also be fine if you did. depends on the day and topic.

“To be truly critical in an honest manner (which Marxists are, all the time, among ourselves)”

lol XD it’s saying shit like this that tells me you’re not connected to reality.

even so, i hear what you’re saying. my feedback, as an outsider, is you’re overcompensating. imo, it would go a long way to start with presenting a fair view of a couple pros and cons, acknowledging the concern of your interlocutor. what i see instead, almost universally, is kneejerk defense of AES and leaders, and just telling non-Leftists that they’re wrong, stupid, propagandized.

i get, but it’s not a NECESSARY component of communism. the DPRK is shit for a lot of reasons, mostly due to the consolidation of power in the hands single insane family. trying to rehabilitate their image or reclaim them is fucking insane. XD and just not helpful to the cause, imo. i certainly makes me care less about everything you’re trying to say, and i’m really giving you the benefit of the doubt here.

i hear what you’re saying.

what i’m saying is, for myself, and at least a few “Left-curious” neo/libs/progs, we don’t want to trade one shit tyranny for another. and it’s obvious, documented history of some pretty glaring failures in AES. if you like, think of ppl like us as trauma victims. it’s probably true anyway.

it can go a long way to offer the olive branch and reassurance that, yes, you don’t want to just “red-wash” that all away, or that you aren’t just enamoured with Red aesthetic and lip-service while being YET ANOTHER group of mastubatory elitists who will trample the out-group-du-jour given the opportunity.

you need to know who you are talking to. you’re already assuming a position of hostility and conflict at base.

mate, i know ppl who literally risked their lives to flee from the USSR. your talking points are just academic. the reality is otherwise. trying to paint legitimate observation of tyranny in AES as some kind of capitalist conspiracy only makes you look more insane offputting.

i’m literally TRYING to reach you, and all Leftists can do is bend over backward to defend tyrants.