• SeattleRain@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    My political vocabulary doesn’t suck. You’re a typical reactionary tankie that thinks that using Lenin’s outdated analysis and calling it Marxism gives you the authority to dismiss the grievances of the colonized.

    Marxism and capitalism doesn’t have stages. Where capitalism exists all of Marx’s critiques apply. You use the tied old “muh imperialism” argument because you’re a Russian chauvinist that fears that the fascist accusations could apply to current day Russia and the fallen Soviet Union.

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      4 months ago

      Lol. Getting called a tanky for saying America isn’t fascist. That’s different. I don’t know why you’re talking about Russia.

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          4 months ago

          Why are you intent on muddling the meaning of words?

          The guy you are arguing with conceded that America did bad things, just those things are called something else. What is it with the fetishization of this word in particular?

          We can all agree:

          Imperialism=bad

          Fascism=bad

          Imperialism definitionally is not fascism. Words have meaning for a reason.