• balderdash@lemmy.zip
    17·
    18 days ago

    Do people not known about the ACP (American “Communist” Party) branching off from the CPUSA and pushing for “patriotic socialism”? Do people agree with the ACP? Or is this getting downvotes because people don’t care about leftist spaces?

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
      423·
      17 days ago

      It’s getting downvotes because it’s not a meme. Even if it’s true, it’s just limp propaganda.

        • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
          113·
          17 days ago

          Memes can be propaganda, yes, but they need to be something more, otherwise they won’t reach people.

          You can make an image macro of a cat with the text “cucumber bad”, but it probably won’t be very popular. Even then, there’s a history of memes about cats reacting to cucumbers that gives that idea more traction than “Nazis did a nazi”.

          Someone asked “why the downvotes”. I explained “bad meme”.

          • RiverRock@lemmy.ml
            191·
            17 days ago

            You can make an image macro of a cat with the text “cucumber bad”, but it probably won’t be very popular.

            Six seven

          • Jentu@lemmy.mlEnglish
            131·
            17 days ago

            Go report the Wikipedia page for Kilroy Was Here for not being complex enough to be culturally significant (despite its actual cultural significance), I guess.

  • fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml
    15·
    17 days ago

    Fuck the ACP, especially their leadership (I use that term loosely). They practice tailism at best, but their clear connections with the esoteric fascism of LaRouche and Dugin, and personal connections to Gabbard (through that loser Hinkle), makes me think they’re more like what this image shows - fascist infiltrators that are grifting their way into prominence and fooling well-meaning people into funding and legitimizing their petit-bourgeois bullshit.

    Not to mention their dismissal of queer and women’s liberation - which are fundamental to any real socialist movement - and their admiration for US ‘revolutionary’ history (specifically 1776 and the 1950s) with no regard for the survivors of the settler-colony’s genocide, slavery, and oppression, all which illuminate just how empty and meaningless their socialist aesthetics really are. These clowns and their ideas can’t disappear fast enough.