i go out of my way to experience different cultures and it seems like the immigrant communities in the united states originating from communist countries tend to be some of the chuddiest people imaginable. chinese, russian, cuban, vietnamese. literally every person who i ever talked to that has lived in a communist country and then moved to the united states, or is like second or third generation from that, tends to be incredibly reactionary and anti communist. i feel like i am a more well versed communist when talking to people that lived in a communist country.
its like that everyone that comes to the united states from a communist country forgets the values of marxism, socialism, and communism. i have been too polite to ask what really made these people move to this fucking shithole and if i had to guess they have something severely wrong with them and they want to participate in some small business tyrany and become capitalists. like all these assholes be chasing the dollar and they bring great shame on their own nationality even being here.
i have had much better discussions with people from countries that are still being exploited by capitalists since they already have an understanding of what colonialism and capitalism even is and they arent here to try to become small business owners or worse. people from puerto rico dont got the brain worms that cuban expats do for example.
and i should mention, they all state, they love their country but they blame everything bad with their country on communists. It infuriates me hearing these people, who were born in a nation with socialized healthcare, state controlled industry, basic welfare for citizens, just trash talk the system that make them so successful in the first place and gave them the resources they probably didn’t deserve to open up a shitty restaurant selling borscht. they would know exactly why these social programs cant meet demand if they just took the blindfold off and realized that america, the great fucking satan, is the reason why the global economy is so unequal ITS ALL BECAUSE OF FUCKING AMERICA NOT COMMUNISM YOU STUPID FUCK!
ive been told not to view myself as more communist than others, but i fucking am around these parts with expats who are not communist whatsoever, that makes me more communist than them. if i was to draw a hundred mile radius around myself odds are there probably wouldnt be someone more communist than me. nobody in my life reads theory, every fucking time i tried reaching out with dsa or the bernie shit i have only met shitlibs, i have found no comrades in bipoc communities, the lgbt, religion, or labor. just having someone say to me face to face they are a communist would help me anchor my belief system to something real and not entirely made up and on the internet.
idk, communism is basically what i use to fill my god hole and its fucking hard to find communists irl and its real shitty that people from communist countries arent oftentimes communists. i just want some validation in my belief in communism by someone who is fucking real.
they moved for a reason. usually, its because they’re reactionaries in their home country but (thankfully) cannot spread their reactionary beliefs there, so they come to the reactionary capital of the world, america.
Yeah not exactly surprising that the Cubans that moved to the US because Castro took their slaves away begat children that spew anti-socialist rhetoric.
My Chinese parents immigrated not to US but to Canada
My mom’s family got their entire business (bunch of merchant shops on the street of a rural town) and large property taken away from the communists
She’s pretty anti-China and a little bigoted but hilariously enough, she’s also anti-Canada/US and anti-
lolMy dad just sold t-shirts on a wagon on the streets and moved to Canada because he blew his entire life savings in his 20s travelling the entire world and wanted to live in a foreign country
He’s pretty pro-China *now* because of the progress and less bigoted than my mom, but also less bigoted towards white people lol
One thing you have to remember though is that Cuba and Vietnam + China in the past were incredibly poor. Like genuinely some of the poorest and worst places you can live in on this planet. Most people are not politically literate and so of course will judge their home country based on what they’ve seen and experienced compared to the West rather than apply historical materialism to their opinions
lmao my rich farmer great grandmother was kulak enough to have divided up their land between all the children and claimed they were all smallholders so nothing got redistributed
all their kids had joined the pla though, so it might have just been benefits for service
Yeah, as ever I recommend non-third-world people read Fanshen, about the fraught process of revolution in a town in China where the (long fled) Lord of the Manor owned a staggering 23 acres (for comparison, you probably can’t support a family very well on less than three.), and the divide of rich and poor was if you could sometimes eat wheat and not millet.
you probably must feel that weird feeling all those german kids felt when they asked their parents and grandparents what they did in the war. like both of us shouldnt have the right to exist for the sins of our parents but here we are, so basically we got to self obliterate ourselves in penance and use what privilege and wealth we have to fight for communism.
its definitely a special kind of person who has the means to move across the world, like there’s economic necessity to move to a country that we consider like ultimately evil (or in canada case, a country trying to imitate its evil neighbor) but the economy good and you can send money back. but it has a cost on your metaphorical soul being here on your own volition. but like being second gen sort of takes that burden off you since you didnt choose to be here.
as for the white person thing, personally i kind of consider how far one is from being black to how close one is to being a direct beneficiary of colonialism. it would be wrong to rank it but pacific asian people tend to side with white people on all the wrong issues since they are so close to “whiteness”. like in the united states at least (and by proxy canada) theres like a caste system and i feel like theres culpability for everyone except the direct bottom, who frankly are innocent in all the sins of this nation.
you probably must feel that weird feeling all those german kids felt when they asked their parents and grandparents what they did in the war
I don’t think being a small business owner is comparable to being a literal Nazi
like both of us shouldnt have the right to exist for the sins of our parents but here we are
People aren’t born inheriting the sins of their parents
to side with white people on all the wrong issues since they are so close to “whiteness”.
This is a bad take and misunderstands the whiteness concept.
The best estimates of the total death toll in India under British rule is somewhere around 60 million people but some of those famines occurred after the end of the British East India Company. A good estimate for those deaths under the Company rule is about 40 million.
All that profiting!
Whiteness is more than the colour of the skin and that play largely a role in power systems and passing.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asien-Pazifik#/media/Datei:Asia-Pacific_map1.png
Is not:
They’re the people who were so greedy/right wing/religious zealots/psychotic that they left and came to America. What do you expect?
I live in an area with a lot of Vietnamese folks, and they are rabid anti-communists. Some of them in my neighborhood will fly the old South Vietnamese flag. One time I was eating at a restaurant one of them owns. An elderly guy walks in with a Vietnam veteran hat. The owner of the restaurant, an elderly lady, comes out and kisses the guy on the cheek and hugs him. Gives him a free meal and it was like a huge event.
It’s creepy and weird. A lot of them are Catholic too which makes it even weirder.
How is it weird? They are the people that fought on the south Vietnamese/French/US side and got their assets kicked and had to flee to the US so they wouldn’t be held accountable for their crimes after the war. And often the most rabid anti-communists are religious zealots.
I’ve seen the old South Vietnam flag flying around here too. It is weird and creepy.
It’s creepy and weird. A lot of them are Catholic too which makes it even weirder.
Not really, that was the religion of the French, so they (or their ancestors) tried to integrate with the religion/culture of their colonial oppressors. Not surprising they would be chuds.
just having someone say to me face to face they are a communist would help me anchor my belief system to something real and not entirely made up and on the internet.
same I just sorta ran into a kenyan marxist back in high school and we are the only people keeping each other sane ever since. Its really a matter of complete fucking luck.
America caters to everything chuds love and attracts them here.
Think about the flip side, if you lived in a communist country, would you want to leave it to come live in this reactionary hellhole?
if you lived in a communist country, would you want to leave it to come live in this reactionary hellhole
When a lot of immigrants from Cuba, Vietnam, and China came over, the US was around 30-40% of the WORLD’s GDP. These three countries’ lifespans were literally a full decade lower than America’s. The infrastructure and technology was easily many many decades behind
Not to mention a normal job in the US at the time could afford you a house and lifestyle that even the wealthiest of those countries would dream of
I mean yea there’s a fuck load of South Vietnam immigrants but this argument is missing a lot of historical analysis
A lot of Westerners who think the US is bad (materially) literally have no idea what China in the 1990s looked like.
in fairness i dont know what the us looked like in the 90s either.
Literally the same, the US hasnt changed at all for normal people
There was way less homeless people everywhere. More young people didn’t have to live with their parents as adults because housing costs were lower. Cars were smaller and less dangerous. Etc
Life has gotten worse
Housing cost less, that’s like 90% of what’s different
Exactly the same, except your computer had only one monitor, which was a CRT that took two people to pick up.
When a lot of immigrants from Cuba, Vietnam, and China came over, the US was around 30-40% of the WORLD’s GDP. These three countries’ lifespans were literally a full decade lower than America’s. The infrastructure and technology was easily many many decades behind
White supremacist’s version of Mecca. The US is the only country on earth to carry out such a nearly complete and total genocide on an entire continent. The undisputed champions of fascism as we know it now.
The European colonial project that built the US killed literally hundreds of millions of people in the US alone, and that was before it was even the US.
And of those who survived, only ~8% are fluent in ANY of their native languages.
The entire population of North and South America at the start of that project did not exceed a hundred million, and the vast majority of it was in central and southern America. There were not hundreds of millions of people in the US to kill.
Very possibly, every native American living within the modern borders of the US from 1400 to today might have totalled a hundred million, but the colonial project didn’t kill literally every one of them.
This source supports me as far as I can tell.
Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492
To get that down to the population remaining today you would have to have killed hundreds of millions of people.
You do understand that people have children right?
You:
The European colonial project that built the US killed literally hundreds of millions of people in the US alone
Your source places the highest estimates for a north American population at seven million. Most likely it was half that. “Hundreds of millions of people in the US alone” is what I am contesting.
In that timespan, imperialism killed hundreds of millions of indigenous people in the Americas, and that was all necessary to building the US empire. There is no disputing that.
Well it depends, doesn’t it? If I were just an average person from a very poor country and a revolution just happened, and the government was having a hard time getting basic services set up, and suddenly we’re under sanction from the whole world, I’m not sure how I’d feel.
That describes people I know who came to the US from Vietnam. They grew up poor, a massive war happened, then the new socialist government had problems maintaining itself for a while.
Modern Vietnam is absolutely a success story though. It paid off in the end, but it took them a while. They’re building rail transport through the country finally, they’ve got a robust healthcare system, and their education seems top notch. But if I were someone poor coming out of a warzone in 1976 with no idea what 2023 Vietnam would look like, I could see wanting to leave.
Most of them left because they fought on the south Vietnamese side though and lost the war and fled so they didn’t have to face Justice for their crimes.
First of all, it isn’t everyone. I know a Chinese immigrant who is awesome and one of the best communists I’ve ever met.
Secondly, in general it is because those are the people who left and so even if someone is leaving due to general poverty and not “Castro took my daddy’s slaves”, they are likely going to end up in a community of deprived slavers, so the Cuban community in America is going to just be shit. It doesn’t help that the proud Cubans in America were likely to be considered spies and attacked by various means during the Cold War.
That’s a specific example, but I think one can abstract from it well enough.
The USA is the land of opportunity (to siphon dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people’s paychecks into your bank account)
its like that everyone that comes to the united states from a communist country forgets the values of marxism, socialism, and communism
Do you think anyone moving to the USA knows and respects those values? If they did, they wouldn’t be going there…
I think there is a section of immigration forms to the US where you have to say you are not a communist or they won’t let you in.
the us only allows chuds to immigrate
Grouping communists (party associated with powerless laborers btw) with terrorists
You’ve gotta think that this low-effort propaganda is losing its steam but all the evidence points to the contrary
Being in Florida my main exposure to this is Miami Cubans. But it’s pretty obvious why they’re all chuds, they’re the children of the rich people who fled when the communists rightfully took all their shit.
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I actually have a couple of communist friends whose family fled a communist revolution. But the story for both was “grandpa/greatgrandpa was a colonel in the regime’s army, they left with a ton of money after the revolution, also my parents and older are chuddy af”.
My conclusion is that just because you lived in a socialist country doesnt mean youre smart or understand socialism or geopolitics. Im friends with a lot of Venezuelans none of them know what the sanctions on their country entail. I dont believe Maduro is perfect either but it sure is a one sided argument on their end. One of them is a full blown pro-usa boomer style chud. They are stupid shitheads when the socialist take over and they continue to be after the fact. Theres no magical socialism button that makes people less stupid.
My conclusion is that just because you lived in a socialist country doesnt mean youre smart or understand socialism or geopolitics.
Just because you lived in a Communist revolutionary government, doesn’t mean you ever got to experience the benefit of communal equality.
Remember, the vast majority of people in the countries that had revolutions were made up of the rural poor. When a revolution succeeds, it doesn’t happen everywhere at once.
Reactionary forces and a host of their allies will carve toe holds and propagandize to the population under their control . It takes damn near a generation just for a revolutionary government to stabilize and that’s if they aren’t still fighting off fascist.
This is inherent to any revolution, not just socialism or communism. However, the problem is more pronounced with communism as the infrastructure requirements for command economics. This is typically even further exacerbated by the previous government, who usually try and punish the general public by destroying key infrastructure on the retreat, usually attempting to lay the blame on revolutionaries.
It’s perfectly understandable why a person who fled any kind of revolution would hate the revolution. In their memory of the status quo things were bad, but they still had a home, a family, a community. We are beings made of memories of our past experiences, thus it is easier to to glorify what we know moreso than what we could know.
Revolution is hard. If it happens in a western nation people on both sides of the divide will loose homes, families, and communities. And if history has anything to tell us, there is a slim to zero percent chance that any of us would would ever live to see the transition of revolutionary government to post scarcity communism.
The fact that this is even question proves how disassociated the modern vanguard is from the proletariat in under developed countries. It basically amounts to victim blaming. “Why didn’t you stay and fight for revolution, didn’t you understand theory”? Well embodied theory is kinda hard to learn when you’re starving, or constantly being shot at by people you don’t know, for reasons you don’t know.
yeah you don’t do a revolution and suddenly all the problems go away. That’s step one
What’s to be done about this? You make very good points. My gut reaction was that it’s an education problem, but as you pointed out the educational infrastructure probably isn’t even built yet if the revolution is recent.
Tbh, I don’t really know. I don’t even know if armed revolution is even a possibility anymore. When I was a younger man I had hoped that the Internet would be a kin to the printing press 2.0. Something that would galvanize the world over and give a voice to the global poor.
A couple decades later I am beginning to realize that tools seemingly made with the intention of enlightenment and engagement can be reforged by capitalist to blind and mute us. Unfortunately it appears that tools built or reforged for capitalism cannot be co-opted by revolutionaries. I’m sure Murray Bookchin would prob have something witty to say about nature of systemic hierarchy about that one.
I don’t really know what the future of communism or socialism will be. I just don’t think it’s going to arise from the old theory people are completely obsessed about. We live in a completely different world than mao or Lenin, and I think it’s kind of silly for people to attempt to embody strategy and doctrine from a hundred years ago.
I agree
People talk out of their ass all the time about everything. Living under a certain government does not make one an expert on that government any more than watching an MLB game makes one an expert on baseball. Tons of people who don’t know shit about either will loudly share their opinions and throw a fit if you disagree.
Thr question isn’t “have they seen it firsthand;” it’s “do they understand the events around them and the associated context”?
plenty of people now live under capitalism and could not explain capitalism if they tried
People in the US get mad at their government when gas prices go up when it’s the result of some OPEC or Saudi decision lol. People have no clue what the causes are of the things that they experience most of the time.
It’s the same in socialist/communist countries: then those dumbasses get convinced to go to the US by all of its propaganda and they continue to believe that propaganda when they live there.
my belief is that there are subsections of society which are more prone to radicalism against the establishment and subsections which are pro establishment and these subsections don’t really care what the establishment is. People with comfortable settled lives will like the establisment no matter what it is the same type of person in England that loves the king would probably have loved Stalin if they had been Russian at a certain point in time and inversely some people who are anti-capitalist because they don’t like the establishment and it’s all too much red tape and bureacratic bullshit would probably be anti-communist in a communist society. Of course people can move between these subsections of society and a successful revolution for example will see people go from one to the other with no change in beliefs. But you’ve only really made it when civil servants are part of your base
East Germany essentially concluded that no matter what they do to try and provide everyone with housing education etc roughly 10% of the population just want to drink smoke fight screw around and rebel against the man.
the vast majority of defectors to the west came from this 10% and of these defectors who risked their life going to west Germany a full third came back because the people who were sitting in front of the tv in east germany thinking that in the west they would have a sports car, penthouse and be married to a model found in the west that their lack of highly in demand skills in the east translated to the west and capitalism doesn’t look after people with no money or marketable skills as well as they had hoped
True stuff
The only time that I have ever been stopped on the streets to be told that comunism sucks was by a Venezuelan
Somebody who probably had no clue that US sanctions were making life in venezuela hard and not socialist policies.
I’ve been trying to read up on the history of Venezuela (and modern-current day), but don’t know where to find a book that wasn’t written by someone with let’s say… vested economic interests.
I know it’s a punt, but would you happen to have any recommendations?
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my ex emigrated from Guangdong about 5 years ago, he wasn’t a chud cuz he got that socialist education.
more like guanggone amirite?
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