Tankies and the Left-Unity Scam - eviltoast

Funny aside, ziq hates me :D

    • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Your enemies are also violent authoritarians, how do you propose that a nonviolent nonauthoritarian revolution protect what gains it has and resist organized violence without some level of “authoritarianism” literally every example of revolutions (anarchists and otherwise) have this feature, or they fail.

      I don’t consider needing to make a unified front nearly as authoritarian as the everyday violence under capitalism.

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          You seem to have a lot of faith in manifesting your imagination into reality. I suggest joining an organization and putting in some work, because that’s how literally anything in reality get changed.

          I organize with anarchists and most of them would get called tankies by you online anarchists lmao

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            I organize with anarchists and most of them would get called tankies by you online anarchists lmao

            This is what I say all the time around here. I really don’t get all this hatred agains commies.

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              I will say I do get annoyed at mls ranting about anarchists in a vacuum for the exact reason, and that’s honestly why I gravitated to hexbear. There’s plenty we agree on, and a lot that everyone should learn from history. Trying to make some sort of us vs them thing is wrecker behavior.

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                I agree. I myself am much more inclined to anarchism than communism. I don’t see anything productive coming out of these provocations.

                Also calling everyone a tankie is pretty offensive.

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                    It’s extra grating because a lot of the people calling you a tankie these days are cheering for the Merkavas in Gaza right now

                    right? but that isn’t news. fascists always hated us.

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            You seem to have a lot of faith in manifesting your imagination into reality. I suggest joining an organization and putting in some work, because that’s how literally anything in reality get changed.

            I suggest you look at my body of work before suggesting to me to do more work.

            I organize with anarchists and most of them would get called tankies by you online anarchists lmao

            Y’all have a very western/USA-centric pespective of anarchists and it shows.

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              Are you in any organizations?

              Y’all have a very western/USA-centric pespective of anarchists and it shows.

              Can you elaborate? Most anarchists (not all) I’ve run into have been in the US, but I was saying they would get called tankies by your standards. Most of the older ones in particular.

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                Man why do you all have to do the interrogation shtick? It’s really jarring to have online randos looking into one’s private life yanno?

                Can you elaborate? Most anarchists (not all) I’ve run into have been in the US

                I am Greek. Anarchists have a way less favorable impression of MLs, partly because our ml orgs were never destroyed like the American ones, so we get to see ml praxis daily.

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                    Εγώ έχω διαφορετικές εμπειρίες. Δεν είναι οτι το οι αναρχικοί μιλάνε για το ΚΚΕ όλη την ώρα, αλλά σίγουρα δεν συνεργάζονται μαζί τους και μπορεις πολύ συχνα να δεις πως τους αντιμετωπίζουν.

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                  Man why do you all have to do the interrogation shtick? It’s really jarring to have online randos looking into one’s private life yanno?

                  The reason I mention it is because a lot of political understanding comes from working with other people towards shared goals.

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                    You said multiple times that there’s not point talking to me and continued to insult me to third parties. What possible reason would I have to continue interacting with you?

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            You seem to have a lot of faith in manifesting your imagination into reality

            Says the tankie to the anarchist, both living in delusion of practical reality.

            Your cruel maskless authoritarianism will make an example to the world of what not to do. Over and over again people like you are revealed to want one thing. Control without check. It’s why you’re scared of capitalism. You actually have to be worth a damn to compete in a market, but when you embrace authoritarian ideals all you need are friends and guns.

            The last two decades of American stagnation in terms of wages and take home pay are largely thanks to the repressive policies of overseas authoritarian “socialists” who justify their repression with the same ideals you do. They suppress their people’s income to make their manufacturing competitive and undermine American labor in the process.

            And American tolerance for their bullshit thanks to our naive idea that we are invincible and these countries will “come around”.

            I’d love to come back in a decade to see how this all pans out for you, but you’ll probably be parroting the exact same narrative despite continued evidence that a mixed market economy with strong unions is the best structure for society we have today.

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            Anarchist who frequently is called a tankie online, but have yet to be called so in person checking in.