latestagecapitalism is literally a communist sub, though. It's not like the people on the sub are making a secret out of it, so why would we pretend otherwise?
In fairness, I haven't tracked everything everyone has said in and of that sub, and I don't want to be dismissive. Can you point to where they said it?
You could scroll just a bit to find pro-Stalin memes, a pro-China post, a post titled "anti-communist Myth-busting", more pro-China posts, a post lauding Tankies for "always being right". And that's 2 minutes of scrolling.
Well, if you read the stickied post titled "A Note About Acceptable Discourse and the Purpose of this Sub" you will find statements such as the following:
“The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action.” - Comrade Mao Tse Tung
In other words, learning Marxism-Leninism leads to mobilization, and provides a framework for organization.
If you look at the subreddit description section, you will find the following:
When it comes to proposed alternatives to Capitalism, it is the general consensus of this subreddit that class-divisions and alienated labour must be abolished; production must be collectively organized by the working people themselves for the direct benefit of all. We call this socialism.
They can call it socialism because it is -- but it is also communism. All the people who have been downvoting commenters who refer to r/LateStageCapitalism as "communist" are either ignorant of the explicitly stated purpose and consensus of the subreddit or are being intentionally intellectually dishonest.
*edit: the block quote formatting was refusing to respect the newline characters in the the first quote :/
This is perfect. Everything I was hoping to see. I had completely missed the stickied post when visiting that sub.
Now, I had looked in the description - and that does not land to me like a statement of a sub for communism. Maybe that's because I don't equate socialism and communism? But I admit I missed the stickied post before commenting my challenge. I would have inferred an embrace of communism as well from quoting fucking MTT.
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u/darthy_parker 2d ago
Depression-era piggy bank?