• Tillyrblue@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I tried explaining this to some tankies but instead I got banned from the community before I could finish my point.

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      1 year ago

      I posted on lemmy.ml calling out tankies as terrible human beings. Pointed out the term was coined by communists disgusted at their fellows cheering on the Soviet’s brutal oppression of other communists. Said tankies don’t deserve the title of “communist”, because at its core the ideals of communism are equity and human dignity. Called Marx “flawed and written for a world that existed 175 years ago”.

      They did not like that at all.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, Marx never claimed to have all the answers. His whole schtick was that society was progressing to a new and fairer stage of human civilization and economic organization, not that he knew the smoothest way to get there.

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          I always think of Marx as a brilliant economist, because he identified a lot of real issues with capitalism as industrialization was in full swing.

          He really sucked on the political side of things though. “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” will always result in an Animal Farm situation. Just human nature.

          I think communists fell into the trap of thinking that because a dude is right about a lot of things it means he’s right about everything. It’s kinda like a cult in that way.

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            1 year ago

            As Marx once said, “If one thing is certain, it is that I am not a Marxist.”

            That being said, ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ is very widely misunderstood, in no small part due to Marxist-Leninists using it as cover for their vanguard bullshit.

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      1 year ago

      Because they only exist to push the putin agenda. They’re the Jordan Peterson of the left, but I wouldn’t even call them leftists. They’re red fascists.