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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.
A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.
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So you decided to respond to me telling another person that reading the literature is not good enough by attempting to figure out if I have done the reading, and once you discovered I have, you decided to just repeat my own original point back to me as if it was your own idea.
I gotta say, the pedantry is expected from an anarchist. Good faith seems to be an allergen to your movement.
Sorry if my tone was abrasive and flippant. But this statement:
concerned me given the state of politics in America today, and the rising fascism around the world. I was only recommending a pamphlet that specifically addresses that topic. Another I might recommend is August Nimtz’s The Ballot, the Streets―or Both: From Marx and Engels to Lenin and the October Revolution, which also touches on the reformation of electoral politics.
Socialism has been gaining ground in the US, unlike communism or anarchism, so it is more understandable I feel more optimistic than you do.
I would say that if your concern is fascism, than working with liberals is the only move one can make at this moment, as unfortunate as that is.
Happy you’re optimistic. We need positivity moving forward. Working with willing Liberals is a must.
Getting them to see that they are probably in more danger than us leftists seems to move the needle a bit.
But sadly, most of the time it's frustration. But yes, positivity is the only option.