without relying on destroying the third world
Whether you're talking about Russia or China here, both of those countries have massive resources, both natural and in terms of population. I'd argue that they didn't have to look for (other) third world countries to ruin; they had plenty of area and people of their own to turn to.
Also, a Lemmy ML user charging into the comments to defend state capitalism in oppressive regimes kinda proves my point.
FFS, that whole hack has left the IA a shambles.
I don't disagree, therefore the attempt to disentangle the actual ideologies from the totalitarian stans who got stuck on '80s propaganda.
It's not like sci-hub hosted anything, AFAIK. Didn't it just circumvent paywalls?
If I'm right (and fucking Elsevier & co. didn't patch the security holes) it should still work, but the sci-hub proxy sites are most likely defunct.
As those in the know can probably tell, I didn't keep up with the whole takedown, but I do miss that easy access to research articles.
No, completely fair point! I think on a platform with a lot of Americans (currently locked in an election where many seem to consider the centrist candidate "too far left") it's good to call out the differences on the [edit: international] left that aren't otherwise discerned.
Sure, those [Medium posts all by the same author that I've never heard of] look interesting enough at a glance — but I'll admit to only skimming them, and I'm not going to go any further down one random, person's online ruminations. Thanks for the offer, though.
I think that, more to the point, no matter the culpability of communism in Soviet politics, tankies seem more enamoured with the latter — the militant, strongarm regimes — than the actual ideals and principles of ideology.
Just to weigh in here with a bit of political nuance — "tankies" are certainly defined by their leftist politics, but moreso by their apologist defense of regimes that more or less transparently use socialist or communist maxims as a cover for state capitalism or straight out autocracy.
Tankies may be the loudest voices to claim themselves Marxist or socialist, but please don't mistake them as actually representing those ideologies truthfully or completely. Personally, I see tankies as more indebted to a cold war-style school of Soviet dogma transplanted to current autocracies. Marx and Trotsky would have rolled their eyes at either.
More like Wordpress where you can choose between their hosted version or install your own instance. But yeah, these days even Wordpress is less of a shining example than it was this time last year.
Pfft, that archaic little sunsail jalopy? Geordi had the same hobby, with the added challenge of bottling his recreations.
Besides, I'm sure some Bajorans would have notes on the cultural appropriation aspect.
(big /s if it isn't clear from context)
Oh man, what a headache to maintain! If that's the case I understand why the resource deprecated after 2020.
Agreed on the project's impact and importance! Raising a small altar to Alexandra Elbakyan right here.