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[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Tankies aren't communists, they're authoritarians with the red aesthetics. They agree with fascists on every valuable part of their worldview, and only disagree on which historical genocidal dictator was totally innocent actually

[–] ReadFanon@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Let's not pretend that your politics aren't inherently authoritarian as well.

Either you support capitalism (or worse), which is grossly authoritarian as it inflicts massive violence not only via warfare but through mass starvation and deprivation, or you support socialism, in which case you have two options:

  1. The violent overthrow of the current system (spoiler alert: that's a very authoritarian thing to do!)

  2. The gradual reform of the current system, meaning maintaining the status quo for an exceptionally long time as we ever so slowly creep our way to a more just economic system while countless people starve, go homeless, die without healthcare, end up in yet-another war and so on (which is a very authoritarian proposition, just throwing away the lives of the poor in your own country—not to mention those in the developing world—just so you can have a neat and tidy reformist approach that doesn't rock the boat.)

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[–] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 year ago

They agree with fascists on every valuable part of their worldview

The Liberal says as they side with Fascists against Communists every single time

[–] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Oh yes, wanting to raise people out of poverty is totally what fascists want.

You don't know what you are talking about. You are just repeating something someone in authority once told you to believe. Ironic.

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[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago (40 children)

So you’re saying communists are fascists now?

In before you say Stalin’s spoon actually killed 100,000,000 Ukrainians

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