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  a clever title.

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  https://lemmygrad.ml/c/alwaysthesamemap

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  You can curate your own feed: use the block button for any communities you don't want to see. As for why there's a lot of politics on lemmy: The west's leading country just threatened to annihalate an entire civilization yesterday. Kind of a lot going on right now.

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  As @Cowbee@lemmy.ml mentioned, PSL (and a few other socialist parties), are the only real opposition, since they’re a working-class party that’s consistently anti-war and anti-capitalism. From crash course socialism: Socialists view democracy under capitalism to be impossible. Most current-day systems are better labeled as Bourgeois Democracy, or democracy for the rich only, which socialists contrast with proletarian democracy. Under capitalism, political parties, representatives, infrastr...

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  You just described the PRC, and notably not capitalist dictatorships, whose governments don't represent their people / working class, but the interests of capitalists only. You desperately need to get past this poli-sci-intro-level understanding of what states are. States are organizations of force for one class (meaning in Marxism their relationship to production) to oppress another. The USA and other liberal countries are capitalist dictatorships over workers, while the PRC is a worker&#3...

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  Since we have a lot of racist redditors coming over here catching bans for their historical ignorance about the June 4th incident, here are some resources: - [Notes for the 30th anniversary of the Tiannment incident.](https://archive.is/jLl0f) - [It wasn't a massacre of peaceful students, but a skirmish between PLA soldiers and armed detachments from the pro-capitalist / free market reform movement.](https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt/) The protest movement, as...

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  CIA and the MIC for sacking Dulles, warming to Cuba, and indicating that he would slow down / put the brakes on interventions in Vietnam and SA. JFK was still an anti-communist imperialist, but he increasingly thought the best strategy for winning the cold war, and getting the world to line up behind US wasn't more war, but soft-power initiatives like the space race, and more equitable economic ties with global south countries. His disagreements with chancellor Dulles led to his killing, D...

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  You're clearly a unique thinker and not influenced at all by decades of anticommunist propaganda. https://mronline.org/2006/09/21/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/ > Life expectancy increased from 35 in 1949 to 65 in the 1970s when Mao’s rule came to an end.

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  No probs!

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  Depends on the country. There are many US specific communities like https://lemmy.ml/c/usa

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  Many far right countries (australia, japan, south korea) use ranked choice voting... it doesn't make a bit of difference. If capitalists control the political system, then they will stack candidates and fund the campaigns that support their interests, and the "democracy" there is nothing but political theatre. Outside of Marxists, even the ancient greeks knew that representative government is just another name for plutocracy, because only wealthy / landed family have the money and...

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  News article about this: www.usatoday.com/story/news/…/88919223007/

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