This isn’t contemporary analysis, it’s fringe among Marxists to say the least. The idea that all.AES states were betrayals of Marxism is a viewpoint nearly exclusive to Orthodox Marxism, itself a dogmatic distortion of Marxism, which is theoretically false and has produced no pracyical results, and is extremely western. You provide no background for suggesting AES leaders “distorted Marxism” nor examples of how. This is harmful and doesn’t say anything, if you consider yourself a Marxist I would recommend following the Marxist principle of “no investigation, no right to speak.”

That’s the power of Socialism at play, when Humanity flips the power of Capital over Humanity on its head and becomes the master of Capital, it can achieve great things. Massive infrastructure projects and rapid development are just one aspect of this process, and the US would do well to follow in the footsteps of the Socialist countries to produce along a common plan. The obstacle, of course, is revolution, but rather than being impossible or easy, the truth is that revolution is just hard work.

No worries! It wasn’t obvious with my wording, haha.

I mean my personal log. You can click the 3 dots and then look at my moderation history for content I posted, not moderated. I don’t moderate anything on this account.

Gotcha! Makes sense. I’ll start doing that in the future.

Just dying empire things.

More the opposite, Hexbear is just a Leftist community that started from a much earlier exit from Reddit.

Imperialism and US Hegemony.

The problem was that the US revolution was really a bourgeois revolution that primarily served genocidal Settler-Colonialists and slavers. It could have taken on a leftward character had it been led by indigenous peoples and the Proletariat, but because it wasn’t, we have the modern US Empire and all the sins it has wrought.

The real best time was the US revolution, if we are being technical. However, now is the best we have.

Dbzer0 is defederated from Grad as far as I know. The admins are generally hostile towards MLs, they only allow Hexbear because it has a significant Anarchist presense.

You aren’t on Grad.

Entirely expected, sadly. This was just a cheap political stunt from Biden and the DNC with the Cuban people as no more than political tools. There was no chance of any other outcome.

Maintaining revolutionary optimism is important. The only thing certain is the passage of time, we must do our best to change the course of history so that it serves Humanity over Capital as best we can. Reading theory and organizing are still critical and still effective. If you want some place to start, I have an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list.

With marx2mao.com, sometimes you have to reload the page to get in. The translations for Lenin’s works are better than Marxists.org, which is why I prefer marx2mao.com even if the website is worse. You sometimes have to “continue to http site.”

That being said, here are the Marxists.org versions, in case you’d prefer them regardless:

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

The State and Revolution

“Left-Wing” Communism

100%. Zionists have always had ties to the Nazi Party.

Imperialism is something that benefits the population in the Imperialist countries. Being naked and honest about how the US plunders the Global South sadly doesn’t do much to help people oppose it from an election standpoint.

What is the ruling class in the PRC? Very important question to answer if you think investing in education will weaken the PRC, not strengthen it.

Unsurprising that the ADL swept in to defend him.

Non-credible defense, basically 4chan but for the millitary, and overwhelmingly loves western millitaries and NATO.

MeanwhileOnGrad is the other, it’s an anti-communist instance maintained by a “former” gamergater that hasn’t changed their views too much considering they complain about “wokeness” and “forcing equity.” That’s actually where the transphobic admin comments came from.

The two comms share a lot of users, and form some of the most active right-wing userbases on Lemmy. Both openly maintain that they aren’t right wing, but there’s blatant open transphobia and complaining about DEI from prominent users that gets highly upvoted there, so more than anything that’s telling about what the actual stances are.