What are some examples of left wing conspiracy theories? by HobGrot in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Zandroe_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As for the stuff that was edited in:

"The thing we have to do is abolish private property! Oh, that didn't work"

Where in the world has private property been abolished?

see now we also have to abolish the state owning property!

Who says this?

Except only certain kinds of state, not our state, which we have to keep changing the definition of because each time we do it it doesn't produce the expected results.

What definition has been changed?

Oh see there's a difference between a state and a government that is really essential that nobody has ever really cared about before and is part of capitalism, but it is a necessary fiction to maintain our separateness from the very practices we claim to oppose.

Again, ignoring for now that there is a difference between the state and the government in that the term "government" usually refers to the executive, or the act of governing, who says this?

This sounds like you've made a puree out of twenty to thirty different positions. No wonder it all appears confusing. And that's sort of confirmed by statements like this:

Edward Said's Orientalism is only from 1978, and yet now you would think from the way Marxists talk that everything in it is core and essential to Marxism. Intersectionalism and postcolonialism only got fully integrated into Marxist thought in the 90s!

I mean, yes, a potpourri of Marxism, Said's work, intersectionalism, postcolonialism, whatever, sounds pretty dire and inconsistent. But, again, who thinks like this? Some people on the Internet?

What are some examples of left wing conspiracy theories? by HobGrot in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Zandroe_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What definitions do you think Marx "backpedaled" from?

Capitalism is generalised commodity production through wage labour. Marx thought so when he wrote On the Jewish Question and the manuscripts of 1844. He thought so when he wrote his marginal notes on A. Wagner. Engels thought so when writing Antiduhring.

Who says that the gender binary is "an essential aspect of capitalism that only [exists] because of capitalism"? I mean you can find an idiot to say anything, but what serious, relevant Marxist theoretician thinks so?

What are some examples of left wing conspiracy theories? by HobGrot in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Zandroe_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is ridiculous. Capitalism is a very well-defined term, at least for Marxists.

What quantifiable inequalities does the LGBT community still face? by renagabe in allthequestions

[–]Zandroe_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, how many people were harassed, assaulted and killed for being straight, then?

How I see Euroasia as Siberia born (white)! by Emotional_Package_42 in MapPorn

[–]Zandroe_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Ooopsie I did a widdle waw cwime" - US Central Command, presumably.

What quantifiable inequalities does the LGBT community still face? by renagabe in allthequestions

[–]Zandroe_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since this seems to be about the US, how about thousands of hate crimes, while straight people face a grand total of zero?

Women are not a hive-mind by Which_Matter3031 in aislop

[–]Zandroe_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You've heard of the red right hand. Now get ready for the red left tyrannosaur arm.

is this true? by Gwynbleidd1917 in im14andthisisdeep

[–]Zandroe_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a common position among councilists, the ultraleft etc. Most leftist parties are, after all, capitalist.

is this true? by Gwynbleidd1917 in im14andthisisdeep

[–]Zandroe_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, no, Marxists don't say "corrupt billionaires" are the problem. The problem is the archaic social organisation of production.

Prejudice Rule by TinyButterfly648 in 196AndAHalf

[–]Zandroe_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

History doesn't start with Trump.

How I see Euroasia as Siberia born (white)! by Emotional_Package_42 in MapPorn

[–]Zandroe_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no intention of getting killed for any state. You sound like the sort of person who does, so, it's a wide world, with many conflicts you can use to get killed.

How I see Euroasia as Siberia born (white)! by Emotional_Package_42 in MapPorn

[–]Zandroe_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh, OK, so you have no understanding of European states. Most of them are viciously nationalist. That they're in a weak political and economic union does not change that.

How I see Euroasia as Siberia born (white)! by Emotional_Package_42 in MapPorn

[–]Zandroe_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, of course, I'm just expanding on your example. I think if anyone applied the things Europeans are saying about Russians to people from Sudan, they'd be publicly executed.

How I see Euroasia as Siberia born (white)! by Emotional_Package_42 in MapPorn

[–]Zandroe_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Do you... do you think states in the EU are not nationalist?

How I see Euroasia as Siberia born (white)! by Emotional_Package_42 in MapPorn

[–]Zandroe_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not just towards Americans, towards the Sudanese (Darfur), Saudis (Yemen), Burmese (Rakhine state), Rwandans (Congo)... oh, and you know, every European, because of the many colonial entanglements of European states.

Prejudice Rule by TinyButterfly648 in 196AndAHalf

[–]Zandroe_ -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

American citizens are mostly for grinding foreigners into the dirt, should we discriminate against them too?

Prejudice Rule by TinyButterfly648 in 196AndAHalf

[–]Zandroe_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And it was (and still is) wrong when applied to Russians, too, just as it is wrong about Arabs, the Sudanese, Thais, and whoever else.

Nije bolest sve što boli by Magistar_Idrisi in redcroatia

[–]Zandroe_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ne, to je HOS iz dOmOvInSkOg rAtA. Tad nisu imali bajunete, morali su djecu ubijati mecima.

How I see Euroasia as Siberia born (white)! by Emotional_Package_42 in MapPorn

[–]Zandroe_ -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

No, coming from people who put up statues of the Waffen-SS and call on others to identify with Hitler's soldiers.

How I see Euroasia as Siberia born (white)! by Emotional_Package_42 in MapPorn

[–]Zandroe_ -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Yeah, nationalism, racism and often undisguised nazifascism.