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I forgot to set a reminder so I'm a little late getting to this, but here we are again:

Are you a "tankie"?

Respond "yes" or "no", I'll collate results later

This process is being undertaken to determine if so-called "tankies" are conspiring to make you (yes, you) have a bad time on the internet!

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[-] birdwing 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think the confusing part is that liberal in there refers not to the ideology but to free in choice.

Maybe a better wording would've been "free" or just "democratic", leaving out the "liberal" entirely.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

All communists believe in freedom and democracy

[-] birdwing 3 points 1 week ago

Then by definition, MLs aren't communists.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

No, by definition Marxist-Leninists are supportive of freedom and democracy for the working class.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

MLs absolutely believe in freedom and democracy; get a better dictionary

[-] birdwing 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, sure. They frequently repress anarchocommunists.

There is no democracy without anarchy.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Communists have historically been the closest allies to anarchists. The fact that the two umbrellas have fought as well doesn't erase that there has been no other group anarchists or communists can claim as as close as each other.

When communists and anarchists do fight, it's usually in the context of civil war, or in the context of anarchist groups within socialist states working to undermine socialism and push for anarchism. The communists pushing back against this isn't "repressing anarchisn," so much as it is socialism protecting the existing system against those who would undermine it. The USSR supported the Spanish anarchists because at the time they shared common goals, but when anarchists organize for the overthrow of socialist states, that's when conflict arises.

We could flip this on its head just as easily: anarchism represses communism, in that both fundamentally come to opposite conclusions: anarchists seek full horizontalism and decentralization, while communists seek full collectivization, which means that though our goals are often fully aligned, they do diverge in the final analysis and as such no anarchist society would genuinely allow communism to be pushed for if it came to exist, and would have to oppress communists.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Liberals always repressed anarchocommunists too, and even anarchocommunists support repressing some people: anarcho capitalists, for example.

I guess they don't believe in freedom or democracy either

[-] birdwing 2 points 1 week ago

Except that MLs repress all of those.

Anarchocommunism represses none, as it favours freedom of speech, freedom from money and greed, and freedom from hierarchy.

Anarchocapitalism doesn't exist; it's mostly libertarians in disguise, who want a repressive Cyberpunk dystopia.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Anarchists necessarily must repress fascism, liberalism, and even communism in order to continue existing, if it came to be. This is historically true as well. You're confusing the liberatory aspects of such a theoretical system with the idea that nobody would oppose it.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Except that MLs repress all of those.

How is that "except"? Why is it ok when liberals do it then?

Anarchocommunism represses none

Really? So fascists are allowed to organize pogroms at will?

Anarchocapitalism doesn’t exist

As opposed to all those anarchocommunists societies, that definitely do exist.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

All communists support freedom and democracy for the working class, the distinction between "authoritarian and democratic" is a purely invented one designed to disavow existing implementations of socialism and absolve the one taking up the mantle of having to grapple with how socialism exists in the real world, often letting Red Scare narratives run rampant and uncontested.

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