this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist, anti-capitalist perspective.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Authoritarian left is such a bizarre and self-contradictory place

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Clearly you haven't read enough Theory(tm)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I've seen more than enough consequences of Practice®

[–] Sunshine 8 points 4 days ago

Authoritarian Left is just a marketing campaign to gain more influence.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago

All authoritarians are bastards.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Russia's invasion is actually imperialism now because the US backs it. (/s)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For real, I wonder what gymnastics this will produce

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Critical Support for Comrade Trump! Supporting the Republican Party is Left Praxis(tm) because the collapse of the Imperial Core is worth any number of 'minorities' of the Amerikkkan crackkker Labor Aristocracy being brutally murdered in the process."

Something like that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hey, anarchists hate the tankies as much as the rest of y’all. If there’s one thing leftists are good at, it’s hating other leftists

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

We love our anarchist comrades here

We love our Demsoc comrades

We even love some Trots (though Trotsky himself was somewhat shitty)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

If tankies and liberals would stop stabbing us in the back, then maybe us anarchists would stop infighting with them. Look at any anarchist history and it almost always is anarchists joining some sort of popular front, and then the statists backstabbing us the first opportunity they get. Spanish Civil War and the Ukrainian War for Independence being two perfect examples.

Personally I still work with statists, because I know I won't get far organizing if I entirely avoid them. But I keep them at arms length cause I'm not letting those leopards anywhere near my face.

[–] Sunshine 12 points 4 days ago

One should be against all forms of imperialism.

Protect Palestine and Ukraine!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Right bcz putting a 100,000 troops on the border of Ukraine and then invading isn't Imperialism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No the US started it clearly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Oh right, my bad. The U.S. MADE Russia do it. I always forget that's what happened.