• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    Well, they’ll describe a bunch of made up shit that actually has nothing to do with communism and say “that’s communism”. So all we have to do is attach a new label to all the shit that communism actually is and call it something with better branding.

    If anybody tries to accuse what we want of being communism we’ll just use their own definitions of communism against them. “Communism is defined as <x>, <y>, and <z>, and none of those things are what I’m proposing, hope that helps :)”

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      18 days ago

      What do you mean when you say “has nothing to do with Communism?” Usually, the purpose of these kinds of monuments is to propagandize against real AES states, but usually exaggerates and/or includes Nazis killed in WWII and similarly dishonest figures in their reporting.

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        18 days ago

        What do you mean when you say “has nothing to do with communism?”

        Generally when you publish negative propaganda about something you …

        *checks notes*

        LIE about it.

        i.e. “Communism is when the government owns your toothbrush!”

        Fact: The government owning your toothbrush has nothing to do with communism.

        “Thank goodness the economic system I advocate for has nothing to do with the government owning your toothbrush, and therefore is, by the definition of ‘communism is when the government owns your toothbrush’, definitely not communism and is instead ‘your toothbrush is yours and yours alone’-ism.”

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          17 days ago

          This is in the context of a “Victims of Communism” monument, though. Generally these are real states operating along Communist principles, but with exaggerations of numbers, inclusions of fascists like the Nazis killed during WWII, etc to make it seem like, say, the USSR “killed 100 million people” or whatever new number the liberals dream up. They aren’t saying the USSR isn’t Socialist, they are saying it is, and that that’s bad because of xyz exaggeration and lie, etc.