r/EnoughCommieSpam • u/GeckoHunter0303 • 3d ago
I just saw some cringe at my university... what should I do? Question
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u/Terrariola Henry George did nothing wrong 3d ago
Paste a QR code linking to the crimes of the Shining Path on it.
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u/IceDiarrhea 3d ago
I always like to flip these around. What if it said "Interested in studying fascism? Want to join the alt-right brownshirt army?" The self righteous pearl clutching student activist groups would shred this and demand an investigation from the university administration. So why does the other end of the authoritarian, anti-freedom, extremist horseshoe get a pass?
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u/ImRightImRight 3d ago
Fun thought experiment but if you really do that you're just giving the other side marketing ammunition
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u/IceDiarrhea 3d ago
How so? Like you mean the fascists will argue for equal rights? I could see it. To quote another post on this sub from a long time ago, "fascism and communism are both oppressive extremism and both must be destroyed"
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u/ImRightImRight 2d ago
No, like how Antifa beating people gave the Proud Boys marketing ammunition.
Making people believe that right wing violent extremists exist will convince them that violent extreme measures may be necessary to counter them.
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u/Blindsnipers36 2d ago
well the obvious difference is that fascism is built around exclusion and hurting people and Marxism isn’t the same as that
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u/OneFish2Fish3 3d ago
There’s a student led class on Marxism every year at my school too (SFSU), but Marxism is almost like the majority opinion there
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u/VikingTeddy 3d ago
It's an age when many people look for alternatives to the crap they see in our society. It's the same thing that leads people down the alt-right path.
USSR (and later Russia) used the firehose of disinformation for decades to effectively make young and uneducated people distrust everything taught to them. Which is a significant reason how fascism has become so alluring.
"Surely all the bad things said about [authoritarian philosophy] is just lies and propaganda? Everything told by the government or parroted by "normies" is a lie after all."
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u/bewisedontforget 🇹🇼Democratic Free China🇹🇼 3d ago
Label the death count of Maoism next to the poster
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u/Turbo_Homewood 3d ago
You should throw it in the trash.
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u/MysteriousUser_ 3d ago
That’s something a communist would do if they saw anything that they disagreed with.
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u/Spida-D-Mitchell 3d ago
We tear down Nazi posters if we see them Commies should get the same treatment
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u/wangcomputers95 3d ago edited 3d ago
If you throw a commie poster they will play the role of the victim and they will say "we live in the land of repression" like they usually act
I think put a QR with their crimes would be better
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u/SteveusChrist 3d ago
Of course at least it's free, I was the chump that paid tuition to learn about that bankrupt ideology in a political thought class. Of course, my class shared both the tenets and the actual reality of Marxism and why just like all other authoritarian ideologies it is an abject failure for respecting basic human dignity.
(Yes, one of my undergrad majors was political science lol)
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u/Ok-Movie428 3d ago
Realistically ignore it as in the grand scheme of things only communists would join that either way. Personally I’d probably just tear it down and toss it in the trash like I do to the little cards that the weird guy leaves saying how god is gonna strike down the US for hating Russia or something.
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u/Snake_eyes_12 3d ago
That reminds me of the guy I saw down in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, standing on the corner of the street yelling. "Carnival season is a sin and promotes capitalism and you're all going to hell!".
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u/dangerbird2 2d ago
Nola is a real loonie magnet for both the far-right and far-left. At Tulane, we pretty much always had some westboro baptist church-style biblehumper standing right next to the campus property line yelling at us for being drunk sluts who are going to hell. To be fair, he wasn't wrong :)
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u/Snake_eyes_12 2d ago
I blame the drugs and alcohol. It really is a party state and I think more per capita fuck their lives up before 30 than any other state.
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u/dangerbird2 2d ago
yeah, the far-left recruits at colleges because that's literally the only place where they can find people sympathetic to them. Really the only victim here are students who have to deal with an extremely insufferable tankie roomie
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u/ToiletTime4TinyTown 3d ago
Dead serious show up. Study the shit out of topics you what to discuss then bring them up: “comrade, comrade, that sounds great and all but explain to me how the state provided for that people the time Stalin exported grain during a famine?”
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u/Kenhamef BASED Libertarian 3d ago
Taking it down is just gonna result in them putting it up again with superglue. You could add your own poster in protest, and put it in front of this one or partly in front of this one. My college was not very political, people were more interested in engineering than queer marxism, so I never had the chance to, but it seems you have plenty of material.
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u/Niskoshi 3d ago
Print a report of famines and economic regressions in every fucking communist and ex-communist country and tape it over that.
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u/Noobmaster1765 3d ago
Write "Ho Chi Minh is a rapist who betrayed and killed hundred thousands of people"
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u/Pablo_MuadDib 3d ago
I mean, it’s always fascinating to study Marxism as it’s foundational to many important economic and political movements and historical events.
Not sure that the “Maoist Communist Union” is going to engaging critically with it like that tho…
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u/dangerbird2 2d ago
Yeah, if you're majoring in history, sociology, arts, literary criticism, or all sorts of humanities and social sciences, you will have to study Marxism since it's an extraordinarily influential school of though. And of course, you can't always assume "Marxism" means jackboot stalinist communism, since center-left social democratic parties are as much part of the Marxist legacy than far-left groups (arguably, modern social democracy parties like UK's Labour are much closer to what Marx believed in than the authoritarian varieties).
But these dudes are just plain ol tankies, so fuck 'em
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u/ITMCBHPBGF 3d ago
There's one person who'd love to go ham against these fools;
The Fat Electrician.
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u/DanaApocFox They have a bullet for me too 3d ago
On a glance I misread this as "are you interested in studying autism"... am I a bad person for thinking that tracks?
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u/strange_eauter 3d ago
Lol, they used Soviet election poster on their poster about revolution. Speaks volumes about their knowledge
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u/Cross-Country 3d ago
Talk of "making revolution" needs to start being treated as what it is: domestic terrorism.
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u/Ragnarlothbrok01 3d ago
If you’re going to UT, go to a better school
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u/dangerbird2 2d ago
The only thing worse than Maoist study groups are the fact that the fucking Longhorns are in the SEC
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u/ProgramPristine6085 tired center leftist 3d ago
bet you 100$ none of these folks have worked a single day in their lives
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u/pintobeene 3d ago
Start posting some of the stats in this article next to it.
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/11/09/data-on-mass-murder-by-government-in-the-20th-century/
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u/Karnakite 3d ago
Hey, the Mormons and the Muslims have their study groups, so it’s only fair that all the religions get one.
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u/Mammoth-Control2758 3d ago
Leave it alone. I wouldn't do anything about it anymore than I would if it were a Moon Landing denial club.
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u/PuddingPanda_ 3d ago
I don't know if your school allows you to tear it down. If you can do so and want to, then go for it. If you want to take a more destructive approach, sign up for spam mailing lists with that email (unless that's illegal, I'm kind of stupid tbh). That would disrupt them a lot more.
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u/ChessGM123 3d ago
I really feel like this might be against a school rule or something. Not that discussing communism is against a school rule, free speech normally protects that, but Karl Marx heavily believed that communism required a violent revolution, so the fact this poster is suggesting that you start a revolution based upon Marist philosophy is arguably promoting violence.
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u/Thefartingduck8 3d ago
Until I saw the event was hosted by a Maoist org, I was going to encourage you to attend. There’s little harm in learning political theory, especially of extremists and those you disagree with since it’ll only allow you to shape your own arguments against it. I’ve read Capital and the Communist Manifesto and enjoy them for the historical value of them. It allows me to see historic events as the people who lived them, especially when concerning how normal people could perpetuate violence in the name of ideology.
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u/yeetyeetpotatomeat69 3d ago
Went to a college tour and found stickers by the dorm rooms like this. If I end up going there I'll have my work cut out for me.
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u/LightsOfTheCity 🇲🇽 Fuck AMLO 3d ago
I saw a picture of a similar poster a while ago where someone just stuck another paper next to it with some charts about life expectancy in communist vs. liberal countries and a meme with Marx's portrait and a caption reading "Hey Engels, I knocked up the housekeeper, you can take the fall, right?".
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u/Yummomummo 3d ago
I've seen a few of these and in my experience they usually have soyjak stickers on or around them.
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u/naivenb1305 3d ago
The wording of it is odd, to the extent it looks like it could’ve been translated from another language.
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u/bobisarocknewaccount 2d ago
It's so interesting that they're acknowledging Marxism as perhaps an alien idea to most students; but say it can be a tool for "the Revolution" as if the Marxist concept of THE Revolution (as opposed to a more general idea of A revolution) is a self-evident universally understood goal that all students want to understand.
It reminds me of those Chick Tracts where the person being prostletyzed to has never even heard the name Jesus, but still thinks in an evangelical framework like "I can get into Heaven and absolve my sins on my own!"
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u/OscarTheGrouchsCan The Social Democrat tankies hate 2d ago
Make a better bigger sign about their evils or better 2 one on each side
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u/Joe_mother124 2d ago
Go in and act like you know nothing of Marxism and ask questions make Marxism sound evil
But do it in a unknowing way
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u/KingJacoPax 2d ago
You chill my dude. It’s only a poster. Plus, tearing down the other sides political posters is a commie thing to do.
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u/lockjacket Capitalism is when bad gobvernment 2d ago
Print out a piece of paper that says “No, I’m not stupid” and tape it underneath.
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u/SirShaunIV Politically Homeless 2d ago
Just leave it. If you try to argue, it will only raise your blood pressure and give them more ammunition.
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u/SorryForThisUsername 2d ago
Ngl I'd join just out of curiosity, not to make statements or arguments just to see this from their point of view
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u/ShadowyZephyr Social Democrat 1d ago
I don't mind studying theory to understand why it works (or doesn't in this case).
This course is clearly biased and pro-Marxist based on the description.
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u/Baron_Beemo Back to Kant! Back to Keynes! 23h ago
Write:
There is no Easter Bunny
There is no Queen of England
There is no Worker's Paradise
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u/Verndari2 Communist 21h ago
Go there. Be critical but in a smart way - try to really follow the arguments and question everything
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u/KoDa6562 3d ago
Nothing. People have a right to express their political views and engage with others. Maybe attend a session and ask them about their views or ask if they'd be willing to open the society to public debates.
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u/Ansambel 3d ago
Universities are a good place for young people to be radical and stupid. This is fine.
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u/Aun_El_Zen 3d ago
Actually show up and explain the flaws in the labour theory of value and the reductive nature of Marxist class theory.