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r/communism has always been a controlled opposition type thing. Any real communists get banned.
True of all leftist and even liberal subreddits. I remember getting banned from one with a very threatening DM after I called out a nazi.
It's a sure-fire way to know if something is controlled opposition: if you make a genuinely effective push against fascism and they ban you for it. It doesn't cost the opponent anything to put on leftist aesthetics or even to support leftism itself, but if you start suggesting ML/MLM/Diamat that's genuinely threatening to them as it has a chance of turning the controlled opposition into real opposition. Much easier to keep the left placated since they know they're not going to be able to trick them to the right. You know, that thing every single anarchist community does.
How many internet leftists even know what Dialectical Materialism even is? All their knowledge of communism comes from the right.