• FlorianSimon
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    10 months ago

    I’m not an American. I don’t vote in the US.

    You literally said you prefer being called a nazi than a liberal. I did not invent this. This says a lot about your twisted sense of priorities.

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      Would you vote for Joe Biden if you were American? I said you can call me whatever you want since you’re hyper focused on labels. Call me Satan’s stillbirth. It doesn’t change the fact that calling people slurs on social media serves fascism.

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        10 months ago

        Being a genocide-denying tankie serves fascism too, in a more litteral way. On top of, you know, scaring away people that might be interested in leftism?

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          You’re yelling at a cloud. I ardently defend Palestinians against their genocide on Lemmy. I don’t like labels, but would be what you call an anarchist. An Internationalist with Council Communist leanings. And I’m here to educate those who think they can have socialism without abolishing capitalism. Marxist Leninists get that, so they are allies. You can’t defend capitalism and be a socialist. It’s that simple.

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            I never defended capitalism. I’m actually opposed to it too. And fuck Israel’s persecution of Palestinians.

            You can say those things and still denounce tankism, like the root comment was doing. This should not be contentious.

            Tankies are not the allies of any denomination of anarchists. More like traditional enemies. Defend sane marxist leninists if you’d like, but don’t jump to the defence of tankies, if you don’t want to be assimilated to them.

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              Marxist Leninists hold no offices and have no power in America. Their organization is limited. Hating on them is performative and masturbatory. It strokes the ego. But it also serves fascism by minimizing the coalition needed to fight it. You can hate tankies with the fire of a thousand suns, but they are against the very people we hope to defeat. I’m no fan of authoritarian leftists, but that battle should be saved for the fifth international after we defeat fascism.

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                The enemy of my enemy is not my friend. I refuse to consider tankies to be allies, especially considering their insignificancy: they’re pretty low-value allies all around. I remember what they did to leftists last time they had the chance…

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                  I wasn’t alive in 1922. Hopefully it won’t play out the same. We have the benefit of hindsight to avoid those mistakes. Leftist infighting serves capitalism. I choose not to participate. I prefer to reserve my anger for capitalism.

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                    You are participating. If you hadn’t felt the need to reply to the root comment, we wouldn’t be here now.