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Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Vitaly@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Even from people that never lived in a communist state

edit: im 17 and i hate communism

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[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I strongly recommend you to read Animal Farm, it's very easy to understand

[-] knightly@pawb.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You mean Orwell's classic anti-capitalist novel wherein a worker's rebellion against tyrannical bosses is betrayed by capitalist pigs who re-create the farm's original conditions for their own profit?

You should read his "Homage to Catalonia", Orwell fought against capitalists in Spain's civil war and wrote a book about his experiences there.

[-] pocketman_stuck@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 1 year ago

oh you are 17. When I was 17 I also was just like you.

[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Also disliked communism?

[-] pocketman_stuck@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 year ago

When I was 17? Hell yeah, with the information I had back then.

I was super conservative lol.

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I’ve read it.

Orwell was socialist my dude.

Ever read one of his other books Down and Out in Paris and London?

It helps explain why he is a socialist.

[-] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I recommend actually reading Marx and Lenin, and not fictitious allegories about strawmen

[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

allegories are much better at explaining theories, you guys always say that it was never actually implemented. And I'm not gonna read something from a man who occupied my country in 1921

[-] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Allegories can help explain theories, but they are never sufficient to understand it. Animal Farm is an allegory of a strawman, it barely touches reality. And it’s no wonder you are that embedded in propaganda, it’s normal.

[-] pocketman_stuck@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 year ago

I did and it is stupid propaganda.

[-] Sagittarii@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I recommend you learn from real books about real life like those of Marx and Lenin, not fiction.

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