Describing china as leftist is kinda funny. They're defs more welfare oriented than neoliberal countries but after the reforms shit is a bit of a joke.
naevaTheRat
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I have a different perspective but we've both said our pieces.
My handler is texting me, I've fallen behind on dividing the west so I'm off to be trans on Facebook.
It would be silly of me to disavow prefiguration when my primary interaction with lemmy has been making it melt down with how vegan I am :p
But I guess that's where these navel-gazey comics and internet slapfights rub me the wrong way. To get where we need to be we don't need a billion anarchists, we need a billion people willing to ignore lords and masters. Agitation focused on waking people up to the flaws in liberal capitalism rather than agitation that fragments the already prostrate left seems more useful to me.
historically we can clearly see that anarchist praxis does bring the goods.
TBH outside of some examples like mondragon (more Basque than anarchist) and the zapatistas it kinda seems like we're getting fucking owned. The left in general seems like it's getting fucking owned. It's one of the things that keeps me up at night.
Awww come on, you know you post bait. A lot of the more aggro users are pretty young and very online, you know how the all feed works. You've either gotta aggressive ban arguing or it just turns into this.
Like with this comic, which is kinda funny, it's a superficial view of sometimes really complex and for people perhaps too invested in the complexities it's like whatever the rage-virus version of catnip is.
I dunno about the working together stuff. The people I've found the most useful in union movements tends to be pretty dogmatic about Lenin. I lean syndicalist myself - believing that unless we control work and train people in democracy that way we'll be destroyed by police - so that might be my own lens on things but a lot of self identifying anarchists aren't the most practical of people.
For real though, I respect you a fair bit but I do find fanning the flames of this internet slapfight over tankies a bit silly. Ultimately lemmy is not determining the course the future, it's the stuff we do outside and I've never had a conversation come up about whether Stalin's apparent antisemitism was a result of intrinsic bias or complex geopolitical realities outside of lemmy. I've stood in line with people without knowing anything deeper than that they're here now about them. I'd apprehensively (lets be honest protest spoopy) do it again.
Basically everyone people call tankies on lemmy want the same good things as "ideology pure" leftists. We're a tiny minority of a minority, aside from like 3 weird people everyone on hexbear/grad/ml is chill. I don't see this doing much except scaring left curious libs away from studying any ideas more serious than welfare stateism.
It all comes out now, nobody can survive contact with power. Even administrating a lemmy instance corrupts.
Come see the violence folks, come see anarchy in action!
What in the gender essentialist fuck? You cannot bar all men from jobs involving kids. You need a working with children check to run an extracurricular class, what are you smoking?
Well of course you know 
It is a joke about the content of said account.
shit on this account I've been accused of being a tankie for having positions like: hating and fearing china is pretty stupid given their lack of militarism, massive improvements in quality of life for the working class, and frankly astounding technological progress in sustainable technologies.
Apparently wanting to end hierarchy and being sceptical of stateist projects means I have to ignore when they work at all and be constantly at war with like the entire world for not being pure enough. There's enough shit keeping me busy in my own life to make up drama about the spooky red threat that seems to be a surveillance state like... every other highly industrialised society right now.
If they find my hexbear account I will be thrown out of town ;)
It was extremely funny to watch the usa Democrats go from "trump is literally a fascist he will destroy America" to "welp, vote in four years folks. Follow evil directions until then".
Sorry champ, can't have you raping the kids. Considered more male appropriate work like investment banking? Leave those jobs that involve contributing to society in community to us girls.