On my way to the next liberated camp, I met some advance units of the Red Army that had occupied a German house. Soviet troops were closing in on Weimar in Eastern Germany. I was immediately embraced and pushed into a celebration already in progress. A glass of what I suppose was Vodka, or gasoline, was thrust into my hand. Everyone was stomping and dancing joyfully. A burly Soviet soldier, with pants stuffed into big black boots, grabbed me, lifted me off my feet and started swinging me around the room. It was only when I was put down that I realized that my dancing partner was a woman. The Soviet Army included females as well as males, but it was sometimes hard to tell which was which. One of the Russian soldiers asked me what I did in the American army. I told him I was a war crimes investigator. I explained that I tried to get evidence of what the SS did. “Don’t you know what they did?” he asked. I said that, of course, I did. “So why are you asking them?” he said quizzically. “Just shoot them!” In later years, when it became clear that we could never try more than a very small sampling of the criminals, and that almost all would escape punishment, I often thought of the advice I got from the simple Russian soldier. Being a lawman, I couldn’t accept it, but I often wondered if he was right.

• Investing Nazi Concentration Camps, Benjamin B. Ferencz

The group that Amnesty International found to have been operating secret torture facilities in Eastern Ukraine? The secret police that HMMRU found evidence of detaining journalists? The same SBU the UN found guilty of human rights violations, sexual violence, and torture? Wow. That’s like saying Mossad are legends.

Yep, agreed, but many other places yes.

Hell, it’s like that on many comment sections on Lemmy.

Focus on the people that are radicalized but uneducated on theory. It’s largely futile to convince those that benefit from the status quo, but for those that are actively seeking answers they come readily to communism.

The problem with that is that people aren’t stupid, they just license themselves to going along with anti-communism, so when you’re caught out you’ve alienated people. That’s why revolutionaries should strive for honesty and transparency, rather than subterfuge and deception.

He exists, even if he’s wrong 🤷

I agree, but I also think that if we are asking which work of Marx is the most important, ultimately it is Capital. The ones that wield having read it or not like a club aren’t helpful, but the work itself absolutely is.

Lemmy.world mods not beating the Nazi sympathizer allegations.

Killing fascists is a good thing, actually.

Revolution isn’t the same as just killing random people. It isn’t difficult to comprehend that.

If those people are fascists, and are the ones preventing the collectivization of production and distribution in order to satisfy everyone’s needs, then a worthwhile society can absolutely be created via revolution. The ones that overthrow fascists are in fact better than fascists.

You always seem to poke your head in to make a strawman or some other absurd point against any meaningful alternatitive to capitalism. That’s why I asked.

What is with your obsession with defending capitalism and making strawmen out of communists?

It’s easily the 3 volumes of Capital. Those are his masterworks, and they hold up brilliantly.

ProleWiki is a communist wikipedia alternative, created due to Wikipedia’s western, liberal bias and connections to western intelligence agencies.

Here’s a link to ProleWiki. It’s great for Marxist-Leninist theory and history, as well as modern essays.

There was just cause. The Kiev regime has killed 13,000 civilians in the Donbass region, and had amassed huge amounts of troops to retake the seperatist regions shortly before Russian intervention stopped the invasion.

Kiev is run by Bandera-upholding Neo-Nazis that took power in the western-backed Euromaidan coup in 2014. Since then, 13,000+ civilians in the Donbass region have been killed by the Kiev regime, which is why Donetsk and Luhansk voted to secede. Communists generally support Russian intervention to protect the DPR and LPR against the western-backed fascists, who shortly before Russian intervention had ammassed huge forces to invade the Donbass region and retake it.

Ukraine is supported by the west for similar reasons as Israel, they are governed by the far-right and serve western interests in their respective regions.

Ukraine is a vassal of western imperialists, similar to Israel.