Incase anyone tells you that lemmy.ml is not a tankie instance.

  • stoly@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    lol before I realized what ml meant I made a comment that I thought that communism had never happened yet on earth but that it could one day. You wouldn’t believe the rage and attack from dozens of people who were inconsolable.

    They also got mad when I said that there are only a few actual leftists in government in the US. Turns out that everyone is one, dontchano

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Your first sentence is not wrong; as I understand Marx’s writing. Essentially it is not possible to go from agrarianism straight to communism without first building an industrial society. That’s how Russia / USSR, China etc don’t “technically” count.

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        6 months ago

        I’m referring more to the fact that Marx envisioned the populace rising up. What really rose in places like Russia and China was a group of self appointed elites who were really just reactionaries.

        Tankies get mad because they believe that their utopia already exists and everyone else is an idiot for not ascribing to the same.

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        6 months ago

        Marxism Leninism

        They are the original Lemmy devs which is why I joined there. Horrible mistake, reactionary idiots who project their insecurity on others while thinking that they are the only ones who figured out the secret sauce. Pretty much exactly sovereign citizen level quackery.

        look up the word “tankies” to get an idea

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          6 months ago

          To be fair, how do westerners not treat capitalism and democracy with exactly the same weight? I think both sides would have good reason to argue that neither side has figured out the secret sauce as you say.

          Not a huge stretch to think both the US and Russia treat their citizens poorly, and neither is a model for the rest of the world.

          • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            Because while both are shit, under capitalism I can at least say it’s shit without fear of incarceration or reeducation.

              • vxx@lemmy.world
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                6 months ago

                What does Stalin have to do with freedom of speech, because tankies support authocrats and dictators worldwide, but especially are fans of Stalin.