Yep. Basically a religion. Like conservatism and capitalism. They can not fail. Only be failed.
It really is absurd how the metaphorical party line hasn’t changed in the past 100 years. Everything is preordained, except for anytime our noble forces fail, in which case it’s an aberration and The Conspiracy Of The International Bourgeoisie
Yep. Theories are a fine thing to have. But you have to test them. And if they fail every time they’re tested then you need new theories. And barring that. The fact that things have changed so much between the time the theories were crafted and now. Large portions certainly are not relevant as they used to be if ever at all.
No joke, tankies are conservatives. The word doesn’t mean right-wing. It’s the consistent label for people who view reality as a team sport.
I dont know the context, the only word I realoze is AES as in encryption, which makes it kinda funny, but probably not correct.
“AES” is ‘actually existing socialism’. To tankies, this means things like “The Soviet Union”, “The PRC”, “North Korea”, and “Venezuela”
Wow you’re an acronym now, congrats
From last time I searched my name on the tankie instances:
Fucking hell, one person explicitly states they want you to die. Absolutely unhinged.
At least it’s in Ukraine. That doesn’t help, but it’s certainly something.
I’m nowhere near as well known to the tankies as PugJesus and still have recieved multiple “go die in Ukraine retard” type comments. Politeness really isn’t a tankie strength.
“Claims to adore Marx, but seems to decry every single movement to put his ideas into practice”
Didn’t Marx disown the Russian Revolution and other violent attempts at implementing communism? Y’know, the very factions these guys put on a pedestal?
No, Marx didn’t live long enough to see the Russian Revolution, and Marx was certainly not adverse to violent revolution. Though he mused that some sufficiently democratic bourgeois societies might be capable of a peaceful transition to socialism, it was certainly not the focus of his writings. Funny enough, he did suggest that Russia was the least ready for socialism of all the major European nations.
Marx, however, believed that development into a bourgeois capitalist society was a necessary prerequisite for a socialist dictatorship of the proletariat. The Bolsheviks were a radical departure from this line of thinking, proposing both that the peasantry were a revolutionary class and that a capitalist mode of production was not necessary to transition to a socialist workers’ state. In addition, the Bolsheviks, despite their claims, were quite anti-democratic, which goes strongly against the spirit and letter of Marx’s writings.
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HB wouldn’t know nothing about that, lol
I’d be interested in what you have to say against the black panther party, if you have the time.
The only thing I said against them was that they didn’t accomplish much in practical terms, which apparent translated to an undying hatred according to tankie morons who love to talk about me, lol.
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