I fled Reddit due to the authoritarian mod craziness, but Lemmy.world seems infested with too much Communist craziness. I’m leftist, but communism is idiocy. Is there an instance that leans more democratic socialist but refrains from going off the deep end?

  • Muad'dib@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    You should use Hexbear. There aren’t any communists there. Just posers who think communism means supporting dictatorships.

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      10 hours ago

      Hexbear supports AES, that’s nowhere near the same as thinking “communism means supporting dictatorships.” It’s far easier to find people that have actually read theory on Hexbear than in most other instances on the fediverse.

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            5 hours ago

            Why aren’t the Haudenosaunee on that list? Isn’t that a bit racist?

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              4 hours ago

              Tribal societies that don’t have advanced industrialization have a separate Mode of Production from “Socialism” in the Marxian sense. No racism at all.

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                4 hours ago

                Yeah, but on the other hand, socialism is when the people own the means of production, and the Haudenosaunee have/had way more of that than USSR and China.

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                  4 hours ago

                  I disagree, tribal societies could only have that kind of relation by virtue of being small. In the age of modern industry, this is no longer feasible while maintaining large-scale manufacturing.