Debunking NATO propaganda and consent manufacturing means massively massively more than your personal relationships and comfort. I don't want to hear how hard it is to be called a 'shill for Putin'. People should have already been calling you a shill for Assad, for Kim Jong Un, for Xi, for Castro or you have been fucking NEGLIGENT AS LEFTISTS. If you're in the imperial core your primary fucking duty is to anti imperialism. Clearly a lot of you haven't been doing this. Now there are possible nuclear consequences and I see a great deal of you still too fucking chicken shit to stick their necks out for people living under the thumbs of America and NATO. Investigate the situation thoroughly and have an informed, consistent take based in Marxism and historical materialism and then REPEAT IT LOUDLY AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD DO NOT STAND FOR THIS. This is supposed to be a board of principled communists, act like it.
Read Combat Liberalism
I got asked IRL if I was a tankie now... Like no mfer I'm just ideologically consistent.
Anarchist here, who has recently been called "tankie" for calling B.S. on U.S. propaganda. I guess Chomsky is a "tankie" too.
Even MLs and their tiny subset of actual tankies don't do Russia/Putin, because the latter are explicitly and unabashedly capitalist.
Liberals just can't do fucking words. :shrug-outta-hecks:
EVEN THE ANARCHISTS ARE ON BOARD! LEFT UNITY ACHIEVED. PARTY LINE OR WHATEVER ANARCHISTS DO ACTIVATE!
Chomsky's take on Ukraine has been consistent with the "It's bad but NATO started it" line we arrived at too
So...I'm starting to imagine maybe this should be the general leftist position and we should fucking stick to it?
Western Left position should be: No involvement in war, negotiate peace for both parties. No more arms, no more volunteers, no more drones.
Im a tankie
Just embrace it comrade. We all are tankies on this blessed day
I'll let other people call me it, but I'll call myself a Marxist Leninist. I'll reclaim the slur but I won't self describe as one
I'm gonna continue calling myself an anarchist to pull radlibs to the left. It also accurately describes my praxis.
Embrace toolbox theory. All tendencies are just tools in our revolutionary toolbox.
I don't agree with that but it does no harm.
tno reference?/??/?
does calling yourself an anarchist really endear you to radlibs more? I can see them finding it less offensive than ML but still offensive. I suppose simply calling yourself a lib to trick them would be too much compromising of your principles.
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hmm, i suppose that is a lot of people, but not nearly as many people as there are simple libs/neolibs who fully embrace capitalism and its logic.
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the left has to do all the work :debord-tired:
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That's not why I describe myself as such. I describe myself as such because that is the praxis I do.
And yes I've had a pretty good track record of pushing people left.
Based.
Just use socialist if u trying to not come on too strong imo
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(secretly resisting the urge to point out all the ghoulish shit he supported like the bombing of yugoslavia and the invasion of afghanistan)
Yeah…. Coool….. :flattened-bernie:
Tanks are cool. I rest my case
Case closed. gavel
Tankie is a meaningless slur in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty two. Pure ideology.
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