[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 5 points 18 hours ago

Number of socialist revolutions that eliminated landlordism: several

Number of georgist revolutions that eliminated landlordism: none

Seems to me like this is more of a socialist argument

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 3 points 18 hours ago

So what do you do for a living that you should be offering to everyone else for free?

Teaching? Medicine? Those are services provided for free to the public. Why is housing, a literal human right that literally everyone needs, not provided either free or extremely subsidized?

Landlords aren't any worse than Chefs who are charging you to eat food

You're thinking of construction workers, the people sweating their asses to build the housing you inhabit, not the leeches between you and the housing that's already constructed.

It might be great if we could find a way to move to a post-capitalist world although I don't know what that would look like

How hard is "public rent either for free or for extremely low prices" to imagine?

But they aren't the only problem in a capitalist society

Agreed, they're part of capitalism, capitalist business owners are the other part of the problem

many of the individual ones are just people trying to get by

Housing shouldn't be allocated based on how lucky you are to get a good landlord or not, people shouldn't be at the mercy of landlords to enjoy decent housing. It should be a guaranteed right.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 9 points 18 hours ago

The landlord doesn't provide a place to live, they paywall it. The construction of housing provides places to live, landlordism only leeches off the poor classes who can't afford to buy housing.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

Huh, whaddyaknow, I thought not

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

So, I'm a tankie user from Hexbear. db0 and hexbear are not federated because, to db0, tankies in hexbear are synonym with redfash and nazbol, and to hexbear, db0 are libs. Db0 democratically choosing to defed from feddit is something that positively surprised me and I wholeheartedly support.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

Tankie tesseract!!

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 12 points 1 day ago

Counting down the days until db0 joins the tankie triad muehehehe

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To start things well: I'm not trying to start an argument, and I'm not trying to ask for this in bad faith. I'm a Spanish Marxist-Leninist who despises the fact that the Second Republic did nothing about fascists until it was too late.

When I discuss the topic of the Soviets being the only ones to materially help the antifascists in Spain (selling modern tanks and aviation, rifles, munitions and teaching them how to use them), very often I encounter anarchists bringing up the repression of anarchists by communists, particularly related to the Barcelona events. However, when I've asked for literature with a quantitative analysis of this, I've never been given any numerical estimate of the extent of the repression. The Proles Pod episode (Timestamp: 1:18:00) on the Stalin Eras that touches the Spanish Civil War quotes the estimate that less than 20 anarchists were confirmed to have been killed by Soviet agents during the entirety of the conflict, but they only mention the study and they don't name it as far as I've found.

When this happens, I'm often told to read a book. I've found and read many estimates of Soviet repression in the USSR in different works, but never encountered anything about communist repression of anarchists with numerical data attached regarding Spain. So this is my request: I don't want personal anecdotes of an anarchist in prison, I want actual, modern, historically sound numerical estimates of this repression. There are such things for, for example, the Makhnovschina, so there must be something similar for republican Spain. Ofc, I can accept sources both in English and in Spanish!

Thanks a lot <3

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 20 points 2 days ago

Yeah, you're right, but piefed users are also malding in the original post.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 21 points 2 days ago

I wouldn't be surprised, but I'll judge them for what I know they are: a Zionist-welcoming instance.

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[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I thought .ml were disgusting authoritarian tankies, now also anarchists are tankies? Almost as if it was a left-punching slur all along :o

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 30 points 2 days ago

"Keychron is praised for its thoccy sound, whereas Yamaha is well regarded for its melodic key sounds"

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There should of course also be 10 Palestinian flags in the Republican railway but it didn't fit. Also the previous OP seemingly forgot that BLM started halfway through the Obama era, and Ferguson happened well within democrat mandate.

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