• redballooon@lemm.eeEnglish
    112·
    1 year ago

    The great misunderstanding of hard left leaning western folks is that neither Russia nor China are socialist or communist.

    Just like their hard right leaning counterparts they’re stuck in a mindset from the first half of the past century.

    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      66·
      1 year ago

      They don’t really believe Russia is socialist to any degree, they just support it because it (supposedly) opposes the western hegemony, USA/NATO, etc.

      Basically the same logic as that of pro-Russian right-wingers.

      • wick@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I had a bunch of hexbear and ml’s tell me russian war crimes in Berlin were “Nazi myths”. Apparently the Nazis had more influence over the world of historical academia after they lost than Russia.

        Also other allied war crimes did happen and weren’t Nazi myths.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      Supporters of autocratic state capitalist regimes like China and Russia also aren’t left-leaning.

              • lulztard@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                To feel smart. Funnily enough, socialism really has it pretty hard trying to get off the ground. The US coups another nation every five years to install some corrupt dictator that’s more than willing to sell out his nation to US interests in exhchange for power. So being hunted down and utterly corrupted by the worlds biggest terrorist nation, calling socialism “never truly tried” is kiiiiiiiiiind of correct. There is a lot of social policies in Europe and those worl pretty well, though US interests and their bootlickers erode those, too.

      • redballooon@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Idk, just last week I overheard a report of an old communist whose life wishes were to visit Vietnam, Kuba and Russia.

    • mnoram@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I think I’m confused. I haven’t seen any left leaning people support Russia or China. It’s right leaning people that support them. What am I missing? Also I’ve never seen any left leaning people say Russia and China are actually socialist or communist since the 80s or 90s. I’ve seen right leaning people claim that lefties believe that but never any examples in real life.

      • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Left and right is not a defined group, it’s a name and any group can pretend/think they belong to it.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The most support for China is basic materialist analysis: they’ve heavily invested in housing, high speed rail, electric car infrastructure, and green energy. Coincidentally: all rather related.

        But that is generally the support associated with China: a materialist analysis, usually, if not always, regarding infrastructure.