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Downvoted. This is how you get tankies in your movement. This is why they consistently show up to every fucking protest like they're welcome there. If we work with authoritarians to get rid of authoritarians, what's the point?
Exactly. The fallacy of this argument becomes perhaps more obvious to y'all left-leaning people when you consider that USA is an imperfect ally for a lot of the world right now.
Thats why tankies are quickly gaining control of every left movement. A left movement sadly always either gets taken over by tankies and then no one wants to do anything with them, respectfully, or they get "tamed" and turn into "social democrats" like the german SPD that holds left values only in writing but not in action
Trust me i am not. I want to see nothing more than a world where capitalism is no more. Where anyone can do what they love to do without financial or social hurdles in their way. Capitalism is the source of 90% of our worldly problems.
I hate it being put into the same pot as tankies. Why tankies are bad, i dont have to elaborate on, do i?
Yes, yes, I'm sure Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and all of your favorite dictators agree that tankies are wonderful people.
Again, not a liberal you godless pinko commie.
Yeah, what's funny is that your commie-adjacent ideology says that people like I are a problem that needs to be dealt with.
My ideology encourages me to just leave you the fuck alone, as long as you leave me alone.
Ooooh i understand, to you anyone that calls for a violent revolution is a "tankie". And anyone that doesnt want a violent revolution is a "moderate social democrat". Did i get that right?
Then yes to you i am a social dem because i know that threw violence you only make yourself seem to be the enemy of peace, stability and democracy. Creating an easy enemy image to rally against. Thus creating a hard wall against anything that is pro workers. You know, litterly how the Red Scare.
But that isnt what a tankie is for me. For me a tankie is someone appologetic to and or denial of the horrible attrocities, undemocratic and dictatorial ways, supression and crushing demonstrations with force, imperialism, denying of freedom in all ways, speech, publication, travel and more, enrichement of them and their ruling class buddys on the exploitation of the workers, not caring about the workers and their lifes, and more, by mao's and current china, north korea, vietnam, soviet union and its puppet states (poland, east germany, romania, hungary, czechia, slovakia, slovenia, bulgaria, albania), yugoslavia, cuba and others.
And yes i saw you are from .ml, meaning you probably fall under that label too.
But you know what is even worse than people like tankies? People like you, discussing terminologie and hardening on political ideological labels and names rather than discussing and coming up with a long term solution to a problem.
Wtf? Are you an agitator or a poser or what? Did you even read what they said? This is what you call "describing every serious communist", emphasis mine
What of the bolded portions are you claiming to be a part of communism?