Weekly Free-for-All (self.aznidentity)

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[–]I8pT 4 points 3 days ago Anybody thinking about ditching western schools of thought as a whole like communism/leftism in favor of eastern ones? I've found donghak and it feels closer to home than European communism

[–]GuyinBedok 3 points 18 hours ago socialist/communist here. communist/leftist ideology are, at essence, internationalist and anti-hegomonic, since marxism has always emphasised the importance of collective action and every communities' right to self determination. also many marxist schools of thought have been established to accommodate the cultural and material conditions of a country, like marxist-leninism vs maoism. so I don't think communism can really be considered a "western school of thought" the same way capitalism is, since much of what leftist theory purposes are in direct opposition towards the homogenous nature of capitalism, opting for more multipolarity in the world. also the anti-imperialist component that later renditions of leftist philosophy centres on makes it more practically applicable internationally. also before the age of European imperialism in Asia, every Asian community and civilisation had their own economic structure and mode of commodity production that were distinct from each other. furthermore, asian nations weren't organised into distinct centralised nation states that they are now (mainly a consequence of imperial powers separating whole nations with arbitrary border lines to accommodate their profit interests), which led to more collobration and a sense of communitarianism among different asian cultures. if we wish to return to this ideal sense of pan-asianism and diversity, I believe that the process of socialism illustrated by leftist ideology would help pave the way for this end goal to be achieved in a pragmatic and more recognisably conceptualised manner. whilst ideas like donghak is great at bringing anti-imperialist values to the masses, I believe such philosophy needs to be accompanied with an overall vision of where you want society to evolve towards, as well as with other realised ideas that share the same sort of values but with a different approach like pan-asianism. EDIT: forgot to add, for us to fully stand with anti-imperialism, we also have to adopt an ideology that would prevent us from eventually becoming imperialist ourselves. much of marxist theologies have explained different methods to do so.

[–]Austronesian_SeaGod 3 points 16 hours ago Couldn't said it any better. The entire idea that socialist or communist thought is a western thing needs to die off. For starters, the greatest socialist experiments was spear headed by the third world and oppressed countries. Right now, India and the Philippines had an ongoing protracted people's war.

Stopped reading after "LEFTarD HeRE". This is why no one should ever take the fggt aiNCEL mods seriously when they screech "We aRe Non-PartiSaN dammIT".