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Black Panthers, Venceremos, Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army

The only really meaningful movement listed here are the Black Panthers, right? And they built off severe racial discrimination that wasn’t present in the same way in Britain.

I also wonder if the stronger welfare state in the UK since the war has discouraged radicalism?

There was also some weird claim if it being fascist because the Russian woman was blonde.

Allowing Xi to have a firm grip on cars everywhere. Authoritarianism has no end.

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‘Libertarian’ was practically synonymous with (left-wing) anarchism before rightists co-opted it.

What were Durruti or Makhno if not leaders? Or Montseny or Garcia Oliver?

Anarchism isn’t anti-leader, as evidenced if by nothing else but the host of well-known and well-respected anarchist leaders throughout history.

Anarchism is against unjust hierarchy, but consensual leadership is absolutely not contradictory to the ideology. You’re always going to need good people to lead movements, to organise and to manage, society would be chaos otherwise. Under anarchism, those people would just be legitimately democratically chosen, and legitimately held accountable by the people.

Why would you not want good leaders?

We literally came to lemmy years ago to have an insular safe space. Why would we care about other websites being popular?

Most commies are “tankies”.

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why?

Wait why are you against trade with China?

“quote”

loving the idea that the WPK maintains control through the power of paid tiktok influencers

claim that China is just “mixed economy”

sometimes I’m just like “yeah sure, whatever you want to believe, it’s still better than what we have here”.

I don’t really care if China is “real socialism” or not if they’re making lives better for their people without destroying the world. It’s not my perfect system but at least it’s real.

I mean, if they did catch him, it’d make a whole lot of sense to remove any possibility of him further embarrassing the state by becoming a western propaganda mouthpiece, and you’ve got to remember this was a very extreme, near-existential crisis where radical measures were taken in response. Other leaders were also executed too, though after trials as far as I’m aware.

Not saying it happened, and we’ll never know either way, but it’s not a completely outlandish idea that the MSS would just off him had they found him.

It’s possible it was plainclothes MSS officers who pulled him away, not fellow civilians.

No evidence either way though, beyond Jiang Zemin very nonchalantly admitting that the CPC had no idea who he was, so…

I mean it’s pretty silly to rank ‘top’ by the metric of ‘number of scientific publications’.

The Chinese institutions listed here aren’t even the ones considered ‘top’ by Chinese people by normal standards.

Because this is a communist website.

They’re local leadership in a single city, not exactly monumental.

People like Corbyn or even Sanders are more significant but again not particularly influential in the grand scheme.