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[–] pirc_lover@feddit.uk 58 points 6 months ago (4 children)

fr i’m not a huge fan of using the hammer and sickle as an emblem given the atrocities carried out by the USSR like the holodomor.

like you can be in favour of a planned economy without simping for stalin’s regime.

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[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, it's really appaling… I see this around my hackerspace and on events all the time as well. I don't get how people can look at history and be like "oh damn, that symbol shows exactly what I like: worker's unionizing!". Discussions usually won't lead anywhere though, way too often they'll either tangle you up in never-ending theories and hypotheticals from the last century (which never worked) until you resign and they feel victorious or excuse even the most abhorrent individuals, let it be Guevara or even Mao.

At least online you're able to quickly block people…

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[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 months ago

Aha, I see what you mean. I interacted with a local organization named after Che Guevara, but the structure of the organization has evolved towards anarchist structure, in ways that prevent the abuse of power that Guevara was known for. So the name of this organization now contradicts the organization structure on the axis of authoritarianism.

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago

For me the hammer and sickle is moreso general communist symbolism, tbh. I don't mind it.

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[–] laserm@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Reminder that states of the former Soviet Block were more brutal union busters than US capitalists and that they participated in huge ethnic cleansings. Solidarnost, the movement that moved Poland past the iron curtain, was literally a union!

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[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 2 points 6 months ago

Its ok they cured her.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

Now she needs to be careful, or the tankie cenobites will come for her.