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marxism has very little to do with racism, sexism or homophobia
by nyolfen 11y ago
marxism has very little to do with racism, sexism or homophobia
- overgard 11y agoSure, but those labels are very useful for throwing your opponents under the bus.
- Grue3 11y agoIt correlates pretty strongly. See, USSR, Maoist China, and so on.
- hga 11y agoAs some "for instances", in the Soviet Union, Jews were labeled as such on their mandatory internal passports, not Russians or whatever, and their access to higher education was limited, and I'd hope I'd not need to point out how the Han Chinese who run the PRC treat their ethnic neighbors like the Tibetans and Uyghurs.
- topynate 11y agoCertainly true as a matter of those states' fundamental hypocrisy, but I believe PopeOfNope was referring to the Left's deployment of those terms as offensive weapons - which also happened. For example, the USSR was very big on paying lip-service to anti-colonialism as a form of soft power over the non-aligned block[1]. This did not seem to noticeably affect her behaviour towards Afghanistan in the Soviet-Afghan War[2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War