I'm a simple non-binary goblin, I support all #socialist projects regardless of tendency.

This is why you'll see me giving spirited defences of #Rojava / #AANES, the #Zapatistas, but also what #MarxistLeninists often call #AES states (#ActuallyExistingSocialism) like #vietnam and #china. The "critical" in critical support is for criticism, not to signify importance.

I've read unbiased information about all of them, and I firmly believe they are #anticapitalist in spirit, with varying levels of success and implementation in practice.

#SocialismExplained

I don't think it's fair to countries like #Vietnam or #China when people bring up how their schools indoctrinate students in "marxism" or "ho chi minh thought".

Put differently, one could easily say "in american schools, they teach Washingtonian, Lincolnist, and Reaganist thought" and be correct about it.

But I've never seen anyone who criticizes #ActuallyExistingSocialism who also talks about American or western schools that way

#school #socialism #propaganda #liberals

When I defend self-described #socialist countries, it's not because I think they are "better" countries or that they're "good" countries fighting the "bad" #capitalist ones. Heck, I don't even have to agree with or believe in their politics.

#CriticalSupport for places like #china or #cuba is important because their actions and problems are scrutinized by western academics, news, and audiences with a fine toothed comb for anything remotely negative about their societies while literally ignoring the same thing or redirecting blame onto something else besides "#capitalism".

Stub your toe in Moscow in 1935 and it's proof of #communism's failures, but homeless people dying in the cold every winter in the United States? Oh that's something #charity can fix, even though it never has.

#ActuallyExistingSocialism #AES #nonprofit