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Tankies are not communists. They are blanquists at best.
Your comment has the "Karen is a racial slur" kind of energy.
And "liberal" is the Tankie go-to for "those we dislike."
Just like it is for the ring-wing fascists.
Well then, what do you call people stopping workers from seizing means of production while at the same time proclaiming themselves to be champions of the working class?
Damn, you call Lenin a liberal?
Yeah, Lenin: the counterrevolutionary bastard that seized the power for himself and dismantled all real worker power.
tankies aren't communists lmao, stay mad
uh oh you said the forbidden word, here come several of the world's most unfuckable people to tell you about how anti authoritarians are the real fascists and if you'd just spend half a year fully immersing yourself in russian state propaganda, you'd get it too.
oh no they're gonna totally own me with their terminally online amount of factoids while telling me how Genocide Is Okay When We Do It, Actually
magats, but make it left
don't care + didn't read + stay mad + L + ratio
anti authoritarian*
you're telling on yourself
left unity is tankie gaslighting.
auth socs put anarchists against the wall before the dust of revolution settles
I don't want unity with tankies. We aren't fighting for the same thing.
no state has achieved the liberation of the working class, because the function of the state is to expand and perpetuate its hegemonic power and influence. state authority is fundamentally oppressive.
The State power- as a lesson of history- Cannot be wielded for good. It is a corrupting power with its own momentum and incentives.
This is precisely why any positive accomplishments of the Leninist states were undone by corruption, bureaucracy, and power-seeking.
Because the very structure of a state by itself makes it not only possible, but inevitable.
What if class was to be determined by both economics (exploitation) and power (oppression), therefore in the USSR all the leninist reformists did was to exchange the wealthy upper class for the all powerful upper class. So at best Leninism is a bad reform of capitalism.
No state can ever achieve anything more than the liberation of the capitalist class. The only liberation for the masses is to seek alternative ways to self govern and abolish any centralized power structures from reforming again.
This is another reason why the rest of the left calls Tankies Red Fascists. So much behavior is shared.
Like the arrogant mislabeling of everything they dislike as "liberals".
Take something antifascists and edit to be ... still antifascists.