The DM was a DM asking us to change our no tankies policy and remove the fuck tankies banner as it was apparently upsetting hexbear users. Apparently tankies view the word tankie as a form of slur. The admin wants us to ally as a form of “left solidarity”
Not to mention that this sub is unapologetically pro LGBT while practically every authoritarian government (including particularly those that tankies support) has been anti LGBT. eg, China prohibits same sex marriage and adoption, while forcing trans people to get permission from their family to transition (spoiler alert: they ain’t progressive).
Democratic socialism with actual equality for all (which goes hand in hand with the root issue socialism is supposed to solve) makes sense and is reasonable. But that’s not what tankies support. They’re defined by support for authoritarian states that have nothing to do with equality except pretending that they care about it.
Or how LGBT relationships and “sissy-men” get censored out the wazzoo in popular Chinese Media and on social media.
Fun fact my mainland Chinese friends started saying “this humiliates China” without any other context on their social media because they weren’t even allowed to say they were lonely during lock downs due to censors.
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That’s great. Good for them. Personally, I’m a lot more amenable to supporting Cuba. While certainly still deeply imperfect, I see Cuba as largely the victim of American bullshit sanctions.
But the fact that Cuba is better doesn’t change the fact that tankies regularly support China specifically. If you support two things, with one being good and one being bad, you’re still supporting a bad thing. So I don’t think your comment justifies support for China.
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As opposed to the democratic political system in china I assume? I’m so fucking sick of American “leftists” simping for the boots they haven’t felt.
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I’m not American you dumbfuck. And I engage in queer-left activism where I live.
How the fuck do you plan to establish a socialist regime in an imperialist world? The revolution, if it’s to last, needs to be global. Even militarily capable projects like Rojava are entirely dependent on the imperialist instincts of the fucking US state department or the CCP as-is.
To claim geographical distance of human rights violations and authoritarian geopolitical interests matters in an age where it takes a few days to circle the world and all global trade in interdependent is all but identical to enabling the genocides at ‘home’, and tankies will get the fucking wall for it :3
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I’m not assuming, I’m stating that tankies are mostly an american phenomena. And no, advocating a violent grassroots revolution is not authoritarian… have you read a book? Ever?
‘Also, x, lol’ jfc can you go back to reddit?
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Not all mind you (you just grouped Cuba, Bolivia and China and you should be executed once for each of those deranged comparisons) but the people you’re reffering to - the ones you think prove tankies are more than a western fad - are mostly just fascists (reffering to China specifically). Tankies are a category of external self-proclaimed socialists singing the praises of foreign fascist regimes, not the members of the regimes themselves.
Firstly, etymological fallacy. Secondly, you’re on an anarchist lemmy, do you think anyone uses the term “authoritarianism” to mean revolution? Thirdly, while I haven’t read Engels’ independent work, based on the writing of adjacent authors this is absolutely does not reffer to anarchists opposing China and the like today. If you pointed Engels (or at least Marx, again) at China and said ‘you did it’ he would show your fucking neck a revolution.
If your country is fucked up you can go and focus on that. I’m not particularly partial to any country, but as I said, knowing people like you irl, I can bet you my left pinky toe I’ve done more to fix the political landscape in my immediate proximity.** The more important part to me is how incredibly interested you are in international issues, until someone suddenly brings up an issue with China, at which point it’s suddenly guys America bad too **as if anyone is unaware. What are your thoughts on the Uyghur genocide? The Holodomor?
I got Vegas on the phone, I bet my first born on you finding a way to slip out of answering like the little bootlicker bitch that you are :3
And you ‘being here first’ makes you no less of a redditor. It’s a state of mind.
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So should we who practice anarchism not be allowed because we don’t believe in Demsoc rhetoric? To me, most proposed demsoc systems would still be inherently authoritarian, as all states are. Especially by so empowering a state by giving it ownership of property instead of collective and direct control by the population.
Am I not allowed because I think electoral politics are inherently anti-democratic and states serve primarily to create and protect the rich from the poor?
Your appeal to democratic socialism as if it were common sense is concerning, because it reflects a lack of will to even entertain other perspectives.
East Germany was the most LGBT friendly country in the west for a lot of its existance and Cuba is the most LGBT friendly country in the world rn. Both Marxist Lenninist. China is at the same ballpark regardng LGBT rights and protections as most of its neighbours and arguably better than most of them