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I've been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

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[โ€“] LemmeAtEm@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lemmygrad isn't "hated" by most of the wider lemmyverse. There's just a loud and obnoxious minority of people that will rail and rant about lemmygrad. They loudly rant about lemmygrad because they aren't used to seeing their worldview get challenged and by its very nature as a radical leftist community, lemmygrad is a challenge to the typical background liberal perspective.

It's no surprise we all end up seeing a lot of threads about "those mean tankies at lemmygrad" (and hexbear too) made by people who can't take their worldview getting questioned, or even shown to be flawed, or just not standing up to their own scrutiny, and who get mad when that happens. There are also of course people with ideological reasons to demonize leftwing politics and will spread shit for that reason alone. But overall, I don't think most people care enough except to think "oh yeah that's that instance with those radical lefties, they're weird but they do make some great memes sometimes."

[โ€“] Clbull@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

There are people who called the main lemmy.ml instance a community of tankies, so I'd take a lot of these claims with a grain of salt.

[โ€“] negativeyoda@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty left/lean socialist. The tankies that annoy me from those instances are pro authoritarian communists who say shit like "Stalin did nothing wrong" with no irony whatsoever. It's not really about bickering over ideological purity past a certain point, some of that shit makes a good case for the horseshoe theory

[โ€“] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"I'm as left as they come but I'm still going to throat the entire State Department patent leather shoe talm bout 'authoritarians' like that's anything more than another white-folk-slur for brown leaders who deny them" you are a fucking joke

[โ€“] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

What's a leftist stance you take?