Title basically. He has multiple times sent me anti-communist propaganda, hes leftist but he doesnt know enough about capitalism to hate it, nor marxism to understand it. He just goes with the western mainstream left of hoping things will change by voting, even living in one of the most corrupt western governments. And just like that he hates communism with the typical 8 morbillion dead argument. I think sending him any response about this is gonna make him mad. How do I deal with this situation?

  • Tovarish Tomato@lemmygrad.ml
    241·
    10 months ago

    Educate him. Explain that the USSR had many flaws but also did many great things. Have your sources ready and stay calm if they don’t agree with you immediately. It is a long and tedious process but there is hope. Especially if their socdem, so they already understand the problems of capitalism they just don´t understand how to overcome them. And ALWAYS stay calm. Don’t get mad. Never stop explaining comrade.

    • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
      16·
      10 months ago

      Make sure to explain that the social democracy “successes” were due to the threat of communism. Unions were only big in the US during the Cold War, and got immediately crushed when the USSR fell.

    • Lurkerino [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      He is in the “I love north-european countries, specially Sweden phase” right now. I think he has too much propaganda of communist countries just being dictatorships, and a neolib idiot friend reinforcing the 10 morbillion dead in gulags. I don’t want to force him to learn, that might have the opposite effect of closing up. I guess I have to be patient. I would have sent him channels like second thought, but for some reason doesn’t want to see anything in english.