• socsa@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    People in the West don’t dislike the tenets of socialism, per se. They dislike the autocratic implementation obsessively favored by MLs, which unfortunately represent most historical examples. This is what the tankies refuse to admit, because they are more obsessed with relitigating the cold war than realistic politics.

    The sad thing is that there’s like 100 years of revisionist theory which gets past a lot of this baggage, but again - the tankies despise it because it isn’t their historical home team.

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      2 months ago

      Then use reason and compassion to make them see the error of their ways. Insults and degradation will only make them defensive and dismiss any arguments, however sound.