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How can I possibly mentally deal with the Soviet deportations? It is NEVER OK to punish an entire ethnic group for the crimes of some of the people.

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Transcript:

As the war in Ukraine grinds on, I feel like I should take the time to talk about tankies within the Left. Whoo boy.

First, what is a tankie?
The term originates from the 2nd half of the 20th century. There was a large schism within the Left at that time, after the Soviet union rolled tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia when the two tried to break out of the Soviet sphere of influence.
While most leftists opposed this, there were some weirdos who supported the Soviets in their brutal crackdowns. These were the OG tankies back then.

Second, the Soviet Union back in that time period. It wasn't socialist or communist. It was a fascistic oligarchy, that later transitioned into far-right kleptocracies, with the exception of those countries that ended up with the West.
Here's the name of the game: build a totalitarian dictatorship with a ruling class of strongmen and cleptocrats, and then put "The People's" in front of the name.
As such, the People's Republic of Hungary wasn't the people's and wasn't a republic, just like every other country under Soviet military occupation.

Enter modern day tankies, carrying the torch of authoritarianism onward. If you've seen leftists in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, chances are they were tankies.

The alpha and omega of tankie political thought is "US bad" (here "US" includes the West as a whole). From this, they extrapolated that anything opposing the US must be good by definition.

Who opposed or currently opposes the US? The Soviet Union. China. Russia. Syria. North Korea. Cuba. The list goes on.

You might notice that these countries all happen to be horrible dictatorships with the aforementioned ruling classes of strongmen and cleptocrats. They disappear people with dissenting political opinions, forming opposition parties or opposing news outlets is either banned or severely restricted, heavy state propaganda is broadcast to the population 24/7, and so on.

Every person with an IQ above room temperature (in Celsius) agrees that these governments are the opposite of good.

Tankies disagree.

Why? Because US bad.

In their minds the US is such a comically overexaggerated evil that even the most horrible actions taken by opposing governments are justified.

China bans forming independent workers' unions? Well, they have to, because those unions would be controlled by the CIA.

Cuba throws political dissidents in jail? Well, they have to, because those people are surely US-puppets.

Russia invades Ukraine after the latter drifts away from its sphere of influence? Well, they had to, they were afraid of US-led "NATO expansion".

You might have guessed it already, but tankies aren't leftists. They only adopted the aesthetics of what many consider "leftist", i.e. symbols associated with the Soviet Union for the most part. Otherwise they're just fascists painted red.

Leftists don't stan for dictatorships and oligarchies. Tankies do.

Leftists don't condone jailing political opponents. Tankies do.

Leftists don't deny genocides like the Holodomor, or what China does to Uygurs. Tankies do.

Leftists don't support Russian blood and soil imperialistic action against Ukraine. Tankies do.

The list goes on.

Especially now, every effort must be taken to excise these lunatics from the left, and send them off to the far-right where they belong. Otherwise they'll keep festering on leftism like a tumor, making it much harder to bring people over.

Next time you see a tankie, feel free to hurl a creative insult of your choice in their direction. In fact, you should.

Thank you, rant over.

[insert tiresome and unfunny ableist image here]

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The most important thing needs to be said first. I am not well read on Maoist theory and history apart from On Contradiction by Mao (which is not really Maoist). So whatever I say, you may as well completely disregard it. It won't any difference.

As everyone here probably knows Chairman Gonzalo died on 11/9/2021. On Reddit at least not many people are mourning. /r/GenZedong's pretty elated about it. I personally don't know enough to take a stance.

/r/communism mods are pretty protective of Guzman's legacy. The truth is that every communist figure is heavily slandered in mainstream capitalist canon. Guzman is pretty unique in that he has a bad reputation among communists as well.

I have been trying to read/watch/listen about the Sendero Luminoso and there is definitely a lot of questionable aspects to them. One thing I found out about is the massacres they have conducted. The victims here are usually indigenous peasants. An example is the Lucanamarca massacre, which the party has confirmed was a directive from it's central leadership.

The thing that makes it the most confusing is that the accusations against the Shining Path are superficially similar to PragerU/Victims of Communism-tier slander against previous communist leaders. For example, it's said that Chairman Gonzalo fostered a cult of personality, using armed indigenous peasants as cannon fodder. I am not yet sure if this was true or not, but going to Maoist blogs and websites and always seeing him being praised as the greatest MLM thinker alive does not instill much confidence. This is just a shallow comment though. For something more substantial I will have to read a bit more.

Back to the topic, the mods of the subreddit don't like what they call revisionism. But the refutations that I see are not very convincing. The articles that are linked are not easy to read but I guess they are targeted towards someone who is more enlightened about the broader context.

The mods seem very knowledgeable so I expected more. Since revisionism is so prevalent, I expected to find some good refutations. But instead I just find a appreciation for furthering Marxist theory, waging a war that, while it did achieve significant victories, ended up failing. As communists, I expected appreciation of results and material gains but instead the realm of preference seems to be ideological dogmatism.

Overall it's very confusing.

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First, let me clarify. The concept of someone being a "race traitor" is inherently a fascist concept. It was used by the Nazis to call Germans who fought against the Nazis as traitors to the "Ayran race" and it is still used today by neo-Nazi groups and groups such as the Ku Klux Klan to call out white leftists as traitors to the "white race."

Biological race does not exist. The genetic diversity between humans is far lower than the average genetic diversity of other mammals. The differences control arbitrary things like the shape of your eyes, the colour of your skin, and your resistance to tropical diseases. Biological race does not exist. Race is a social construct created for racists and fascists to justify their oppression.

So when I hear leftists on GenZedong calling some asian guy an "honorary white" or "race traitor" (although the person who did that got called out and apologised/edited their comment) it frankly disgusts me.

People do not owe a duty to their race. The idea that they do is literally a fascist concept. The minute people start accusing others of being "race traitors," they are spouting fascist bullshit. Because again, people do not inherently owe a duty to their race.

r/GenZedong, despite me generally liking it, delves too close time and time again to fascist racial bullshit. One person is talking about the concept of a Hanjian as betraying "the Han State" which is is just Han chauvinism supported by a bunch of sinophiles. People are confusing fights for emancipation with chauvinist fascist bullshit.

This is what happens when people entirely ignore the class character of this sort of shit in favour of race reductionist bullshit. When people are too concerned with crackers and not enough about the class conflict and its enforcement of systematic racism and imperialism, preferring instead to blame it on "crackers" as though the average Joe the Miner is supporting the War on Terror because it's part of his evil plan to destroy Muslims and not because he's been fed bullshit by racist right-wing media. This isn't to say racism and imperialism aren't issues, but that they are part of the greater class conflict.

Is Barack Obama an "Uncle Tom" or a "Race Traitor?" No, because he doesn't owe servitude to his "race." He serves his class, the bourgeoisie. Candace Owens isn't a race traitor, because she doesn't owe servitude to her race, she serves as a token black lady who's job is to give right-wing outlets like TPUSA and Pragur U credibility.

Race reductionism is fucking stupid. The concept of people "betraying their race" is fucking stupid. It's an argument made by skinheads for skinheads and the fact people are so caught up in their rabid anti-cracker campaigning to realise they're gobbling down literal fascist arguments is fucking astounding to me.

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Engels on Left Unity (lemmygrad.ml)
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Alcohol-driven rant (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

It's not a rant. I'm fucking drunk and I just wanted to say I fucking love you, comrades. The more I live, the more I realize we're on the right path towards our full human potential

Let us embrace our spirit. Long live socialism, also read Lenin. It's too good 😍😍😭😭😭

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Anarcho-Primitivism, or Anprim, is an ideology that draws very heavily from the colonialist's ahistorical view of "savages". At the ideology's very core lives a continuation of colonial racism, every aspect of the ideology is drenched in colonialism.

I'll start by explaining that the term "primitive" being pointed towards people is derogatory, that was (and still is) done to seperate the colonizers from the colonised. To put it another way, the "civilized" white men, from the "uncivilized" dark men. Further, "Primitive" Anti-Civ ideology was named by its detractors. Believers in the ideology referred to it as "Anti-Civilization", "Pre-Civilization", and "Post-Civilization", and the critics - being colonialists themselves - called it "Primitivism". If you use "Prim" for Anprim, you might as well be calling the natives of America "red beasts", or the blacks of Africa "apes".

Which brings us to the next issue of the ideology, the meme-y desire to treat Anarcho-Primitism as a monkey collective, or more directly, wanting to treat Anti-Civists like apes. Which, comes directly from the aforementioned colonial racism affixed to the ideology. Anti-Civ is a very wide ideology, based widely on technophobia and sentiments around the "failures of civilization", often citing the rise of capitalism as a mistake that could have been routed if civilization had been built differently, or if it had not been built at all. They're not "oh haha cities bad throws poop", as many mistake them as being, they're a structured ideology based on theories and observable wrongdoings.

The third thing I want to bring up about Anti-Civ - if I may use its proper name - is that it is very often filled with ecofascists, and right-wing chuds. Though there are leftists within the umbrella, if you take the time to visit Anti-Civ communities, you'll find very quickly that they're filled with hateful people. You'll find rampant homophobia, terrible transphobia, and boatloads of racism. That makes it a predominately vile ideology, and not a community I want here on Lemmy.

Of course, I write this because /c/anprim has been made, and I dreaded the day I would have to write this out to protect - if you would - Lemmy from the terrible meme of it. And, of course, I don't say this to be an asshole or a party pooper, but I can't allow such a disgusting disgrace of a meme'd ideology to taint our communities. People who are aware of me would know I'm Pagan, and that I specialize - for my career - in guns from the 1800s. Those are two communities that constantly get flooded with Anti-Civ assholes, I've seen what happens when they become tolerated, and I don't want that to happen here.

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In what way is it a democratic republic? I mean, it just looks like a dynasty. If it's not, could you explain how it's not, and if it is, how is that ok? I'm not deliberately trying to repeat U.S. propaganda, I hope this doesn't come off like that, but my only knowledge so far is only from the U.S., so I'm asking these questions to try to get a deeper understanding.

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lmao ok (lemmygrad.ml)
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And only serves to defend the western white Bourgeoisie from the much more serious and theory-oriented "tankies" whom gather their theory from actual research and actual dialecticism. In the past and the present, they're perhaps the biggest force advocating anti-communist narratives.

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Leftist Infighting: A community dedicated to allowing leftists to vent their frustrations

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The purpose of this community is sort of a "work out your frustrations by letting it all out" where different leftist tendencies can vent their frustrations with one another and more assertively and directly challenge one another. Hostility is allowed, but any racist, fascist, or reactionary crap wont be tolerated, nor will explicit threats.

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