You’ll see anarchists praising Rosa Luxemburg, who if they had actually read her writings – they would see that she was very clearly one of the “authoritarian” socialists that they rail against so much.

You see them praise the Black Panthers, who were supported financially by the DPRK and aligned themselves with the Juche ideology of Kim Il Sung.

They even praise Thomas Sankara, who purged anarchists and arrested syndicalists.

If these people had succeeded, i have no doubt in my mind that anarchists would call them “tankies,” they would call their experiments “capitalism with a red flag.” And I also have no doubt in my mind that if the October Revolution, Chinese Revolution had been crushed, they would hail Lenin and Mao as proletarian heroes.

  • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m less than 2 months out of having my genitals inverted surgery

    Which is something that has been covered by Cuba’s free healthcare program since 2008 while governments in the West are passing legislation to undermine trans people’s rights.

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      1 year ago

      Its not just the west that is doing so. The majority of extant states have bans on it.

      And yeah fuck the west. I don’t have any major issues with Cuba, as far as I’m concerned they’re one of the better states that have ever existed.