Revolutionaries, freedom fighters, and socialists are not one to one with tankies, friend. Some became tankies, yes. But fighting your oppressors and becoming an oppressors are two different things.
I cannot stress enough how the entire structure of this “tankie” narrative is just reheated Christian epistemology about power corrupting, rehashed Marvel slop about how changing anything actually makes you turn evil, capitalist slave ideology about how change leads to bad things and a better world isn’t possible. Better to suffer forever and be a pure lamb in the hopes of being rewarded in the afterlife after a really good election.
Anyway, if I was to ask you what on earth you think is going to happen if we all “go tankie” (just the new snarl word for communist now that communism is becoming popular) you would not be able to give me a coherent, stage-1 stage-2, cause and effect answer. Your answer would look less like a scientific process of cause and effect and more like a religious prohpect, because you and I grew up being conditioned into liberal thought, which means being conditioned into magical thinking.
I have no issue with communists, revolutionaries, fighting oppressors, change, etc. I have an issue with authoritarianism (both left and right wing), and violence employed against political dissenters.
I have an issue with authoritarianism (both left and right wing), and violence employed against political dissenters.
Revolution is violence against political dissenters and is authoritarian, considering that revolutionaries impose their will upon somebody else by usage of force.
But hey, everybody willing can explain why violence against fascists (who are the “political dissenters” in question) and authoritarianism (i.e. having a government and a military) are bad and shouldn’t be done by the Global South.
Revolutionaries, freedom fighters, and socialists are not one to one with tankies, friend. Some became tankies, yes. But fighting your oppressors and becoming an oppressors are two different things.
Gonna tell me this isn’t the way next?
I cannot stress enough how the entire structure of this “tankie” narrative is just reheated Christian epistemology about power corrupting, rehashed Marvel slop about how changing anything actually makes you turn evil, capitalist slave ideology about how change leads to bad things and a better world isn’t possible. Better to suffer forever and be a pure lamb in the hopes of being rewarded
in the afterlifeafter a really good election.Anyway, if I was to ask you what on earth you think is going to happen if we all “go tankie” (just the new snarl word for communist now that communism is becoming popular) you would not be able to give me a coherent, stage-1 stage-2, cause and effect answer. Your answer would look less like a scientific process of cause and effect and more like a religious prohpect, because you and I grew up being conditioned into liberal thought, which means being conditioned into magical thinking.
I have no issue with communists, revolutionaries, fighting oppressors, change, etc. I have an issue with authoritarianism (both left and right wing), and violence employed against political dissenters.
Revolution is violence against political dissenters and is authoritarian, considering that revolutionaries impose their will upon somebody else by usage of force.
But hey, everybody willing can explain why violence against fascists (who are the “political dissenters” in question) and authoritarianism (i.e. having a government and a military) are bad and shouldn’t be done by the Global South.