I’d argue being a worker with rights is significantly better than being a peasant without rights but whatever you say man. If you do want other sources though here’s a short, well sourced, essay on Tibetan feudalism written by a historian who is not Chinese. All of the sources used are western and many are politically opposed to China.

I repeated myself because what you said didn’t make sense and never addressed my argument.

Are you absolutely certain America was pushing chinese communist propaganda in 1944? Are you certain you want to use the highly politically motivated and American backed (both financially and politically) Tibetan government in exile website as a source here? The Tibetan government in exile was created by and for the former Tibetan ruling class who, and I cannot stress this enough, owned people. Peasants they had the legal and religious right to punish however they wanted. In no world can their word be considered reliable.

This 1944 (pre-communist China) American documentary suggests otherwise. Tibet was considered part of China long before it officially became one with it. Besides, the people of Tibet were genuinely slaves, I can’t imagine why people are so upset abou t the feudal system being done away with.

22% of the worlds incarcerated people are held in the US iirc

He’s sad he isn’t allowed to have slaves like his ancestors 😔

Truly a tragedy. How will he survive without cohorts of children to groom?

Got an anarchist into our book club and she is not an anarchist anymore. She is however, a leftcom and I don’t know if that’s better. At least she is reading. Gabriel Rockhill wasn’t fucking lying huh

Do I need to say more than “Russia is evil”?

Yes lol, you do need to say more than that.

Anyway it seems like we just have different standards for how clearly our meanings should be articulated. Especially on topics such as these. This is likely because I come from a country where Islamophobia is so endemic. Statements like the original commenter made are something I often hear said sarcastly from people I know to be bigots. In my experience it has been people like this who supported our brutal invasions and/or sanctions of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Often times they are also the type to be sympathetic to Israel (or at least were at one point). They use their supposed disgust with the bigotry of the foreigner to mask their own bigotry and support for imperialist plunder. So perhaps I overanalyzed that persons statement but perhaps my experiences let me see things you might miss.

Finally, I wasn’t suggesting we discuss the revolution in Bedouin society caused by Islam I just think it is cool and interesting and something you should read about when you get the chance.

When determining if an action is moral you should include the reason for the action into your analysis rather than stopping at “action bad” because bad guy did it before.

Criticizing a religion is no more a criticism of the individual believers than calling a national government (like the Russian one maybe) evil is equivalent to claiming all who share that nationality are evil.

If one is to this then they must make it clear which the original commentor did not. They did not say “the religious hierarchy within islam is oppressive in order to preserve existing structures of power”, they just clearly implied Islam is intolerant without any addition of context. I believe my interpretation was reasonable within those bounds.

I also encourage you to look into how Bedouins treated women before Islam. Or anyone for that matter, it was often unpleasant to be a part of their society and Islam made their lives better.

To say Islam is intolerant is to generally claim that Muslims are intolerant. I don’t think you can seperate the claim from its implications.

I think it is worth noting that Islam was a liberatory movement in the age of its emergence and continued to be so for long after in many cases. Especially for women. It only became oppressive as it became part of the state. This was furthered by European imperialism in West Asia and North Africa. The Islam you see today can be dramatically different from the Islam of 1850.

Religion is superstructural. It is not the source of misogyny nor is it the source of oppression generally. It can be used to justify these things sure but it is not why they exist. I won’t pretend to fully understand the social relations within West Asia and their origin but it is certain that there are material rather than idealist reasons for their current state. Removing the religion would not remove the impetus for misogyny and oppression it would only remove its current justification.

These people must overcome these cultural struggles on their own terms and in their own time while we work on our own as well. The reason I worry about the original commenters perception of Islam is because such perspectives are utilized by our governments to justify imperialist aggression against Muslim majority countries. This imperialist aggression is wrapped in the language of helping their oppressed groups but never does anything of the sort. Cultures do not grow under imperial boots.

Poles have good reason to be upset with Ukraine rn. Russia MIGHT be assisting in this but it likely would not need to.

There are 2 billion muslims in the world. They are not a monolith. You would struggle to find muslims who agree with each other on all fronts if you tried. Jumping from these muslims did something bad to all muslims are intolerant is nuts and I encourage you to reevaluate and maybe speak to actual Muslims sometime.

Religion in general can be a tool of oppression, this is not unique to Islam. Do not fall for your ruling class’ villification of the other.

Archive link? I am assuming it was their family and not the government that did this to them but I’d like to read it and find out without giving my email.

Divinity and then Dark Souls

“Aryan goddess”

Sometimes I intentionally eat the shells of sunflower seeds. So tasty and crunchy

Kvaesitso is my go to. You can make hidden folders by starting the folder name with a period no?

Actually a large portion (>60%) of the Russian deaths by Nazi hands were civilian. Over 7 million (compared to the 8.7 million military deaths) were a direct result of the Nazi extermination policy while 2.5 million died in labor camps and 4 ish million starved. (Estimates vary from historian to historian but these are the wikipedia numbers) The Russians didn’t have a high casualty count because they “didn’t care about their soldiers” and “practiced meat wave assaults.” They had a high casualty count because the Nazis wanted to exterminate them and were honestly quite good at it sometimes. You are perpuating anti-communist myths created by people intent on reducing the USSRs popularity immediately following their liberation of Europe from fascism.

I’ll give it to you that the Red Army made risky moves that got people killed unnecessarily but I think your analysis as to why is superficial and idealist.

You cannot possibly say that they did not have ideological conflicts when like half of Nazi rhetoric was about how communism was ontologically evil and also a jewish plot. Like Hitler’s explicit position was that slavic people should be wiped from existence or at least permenantly enslaved. The Soviets knew this when they were the last to sign a non-aggression pact. Hell, they knew this many years before that.

The Soviets understood fascism to be ideologically opposed to their existence and the fascist understood communism to be a threat to the continued private ownership of production from which their real power was sourced. They could not have been more ideologically opposed. I am assuming you think they are not because both visibly wield their authority internally?

Please don’t blame your domestic ploitical troubles on scary asians. American liberals do this too and they are just full of shit. I am aware that they are far right, that is what concerns me

This is not to say Russia doesn’t interfere in your politics. I think most major capitalist nations meddle in each others elections. However, fascism isn’t something built by outside agitators. Take responsibility for the actions of your nation and please try to do something about it instead of blaming your problems on other nations.