I'll start.
There really is no point to monogamy other than to feed one's ego and aspiring to have your own children over adopting is its own form of eugenics.
I'll start.
There really is no point to monogamy other than to feed one's ego and aspiring to have your own children over adopting is its own form of eugenics.
Lots of tankies obsess over violent revolution and brutalizing enemies not because they want to do good, but because they belong to oppressed groups, and they want to inflict the same kind of pain on others that they themselves have suffered. Aside from shallow associations with idols and imagery, their identity doesn't extend much further beyond "I want to hurt people I hate."
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Nah let them downbear, if my take is shit my take is shit
thanks tho
I think it might be a bit of both. There is something almost inherently appealing about the idea of those who fucked over everyone else finally getting what they deserve. And when you're a leftist, sometimes it feels like you are just helplessly watching as these ghouls actively make life worse for others in order to enrich themselves, and do war crimes in order to support the American empire, and all sorts of other evil shit that they are virtually guaranteed to get away with. And that just kind of causes those thoughts wishing the utmost harm on these people to fester.
But while this is a tendency we should actively try to check (in favor of this), I wouldn't go as far as to say that harm on their enemies is all "tankies" care about.
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I don't think this is unique to "tankies" or ML(M)s, anarchists frequently call to put people on the wall or post John Brown memes. Most of it is probably the same hormonal angsty rage most young people who want to fight for something in our otherwise meaningless lives have. The rest is probably the circlejerk. Maybe historical materialism has something to do with it too.
Not to start infighting but I could say the same thing for anarchists
Yeah I don't think we can say whether or not a particular tendency is more "violent" than the other online without either acknowledging that our experience is anecdotal or doing some pretty in depth research on it.
You definitely could, no question there
You'd be full of shit if you did. The average internet anarchist is much kess prone to violent fantasies.
Ah yes, Horseshoe Theory rears its ugly head again. When you get to the barebones, both adopt cult-like status and want to regulate and control human agency with austere measures, and slay those who get in their way.
First, I don't think being driven by hatred for your oppressors is mutually exclusive with having a sincere Marxist-Leninist ideology. If you want to take revenge on your oppressors, Marxism-Leninism offers the means.
Second, that's fine, actually. I don't think it makes much sense to only allow the pure of heart in the proletarian revolution.
On the other hand, if you're saying that a lot of MLs are just indiscriminately sadistic, that's a load of shit and a repackaging of the anticommunist propaganda line that communists are just bloodthirsty, power-hungry murderers with no sincere convictions.