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Is this the right place for shitlib Lemmy slop? (hexbear.net)
submitted 11 months ago* by to c/slop@hexbear.net
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Post in question: https://lemmy.zip/post/49704665

They also seem to have learned a new word to use instead of "Tankie": ML

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[–] 48 points 11 months ago (3 children)

scientific socialists (aka TANKIES) specifically don't believe 'the revolution will fix everything'. We are not utopians. The revolution is necessary though.

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Engels: "I wrote 500 pages contrasting scientific socialism with utopian socialism"

    Libs: "The problem with Marxism is it's utopian"

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, if anything it would be more accurate to say that the revolution is the groundwork that makes incremental change from that point on viable (by formal democratic processes).

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago*

    Yeah, if anything this critique is fairly in line with the critique of western Marxists, but those are famously rarely ML. Millenarianism is a common critique of Trotskyists and Ultras. At first, without reading the title, I thought it was an out of context (and not greatly worded) critique of western leftists from an ML until I saw 'ML' and realized this was weird

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