Yeah, it's really appaling… I see this around my hackerspace and on events all the time as well. I don't get how people can look at history and be like "oh damn, that symbol shows exactly what I like: worker's unionizing!". Discussions usually won't lead anywhere though, way too often they'll either tangle you up in never-ending theories and hypotheticals from the last century (which never worked) until you resign and they feel victorious or excuse even the most abhorrent individuals, let it be Guevara or even Mao.
At least online you're able to quickly block people…
Reminder that states of the former Soviet Block were more brutal union busters than US capitalists and that they participated in huge ethnic cleansings. Solidarnost, the movement that moved Poland past the iron curtain, was literally a union!
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pirc_lover@feddit.uk · 56 pts · 243d
fr i’m not a huge fan of using the hammer and sickle as an emblem given the atrocities carried out by the USSR like the holodomor.
like you can be in favour of a planned economy without simping for stalin’s regime.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 29 pts · 243d
Yeah, it's really appaling… I see this around my hackerspace and on events all the time as well. I don't get how people can look at history and be like "oh damn, that symbol shows exactly what I like: worker's unionizing!". Discussions usually won't lead anywhere though, way too often they'll either tangle you up in never-ending theories and hypotheticals from the last century (which never worked) until you resign and they feel victorious or excuse even the most abhorrent individuals, let it be Guevara or even Mao.
At least online you're able to quickly block people…
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 242d
For me the hammer and sickle is moreso general communist symbolism, tbh. I don't mind it.
laserm@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 242d
Reminder that states of the former Soviet Block were more brutal union busters than US capitalists and that they participated in huge ethnic cleansings. Solidarnost, the movement that moved Poland past the iron curtain, was literally a union!
Tetragrade@leminal.space · 2 pts · 241d
Its ok they cured her.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 243d
Now she needs to be careful, or the tankie cenobites will come for her.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 242d
Can I get a copy of the orignal? it is for friend I swear