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Communists
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I noticed a trend with white communists.
They do not value autonomy and liberation, they value control and dominance, just like their political counterparts. They do not oppose centralized power, they oppose centralized power that they do not have ownership of.
It isn't about the liberation of marginalized classes, it's about placing power within the white "working class" and those in proximity to them.
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I know them, the American men (and women) of the left. Talking to them always makes me feel like the worst kind of dissident, a right-wing freak (or a Republican, at best), even if I consider myself an honest social democrat. For every mild criticism of life in the system I have been living under for the last forty years they look at me suspiciously, as if I were a CIA agent... But one can hardly blame them. It is not the knowledge about communism they lack - I am pretty sure they know all about
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― How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
― How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
