I live in the UK and nearly every older Communist you meet is a Trot and all the protests that I've been to that have had communists at them were mostly Trot orgs but online everyone just seems to shit on them for no clear reason. Am I missing something? Or is it just regular leftist infighting

  • keki_ya [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    very common occurrence in NATO countries for some reason

    I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I see a lot of online leftists say stuff like “tankies aren’t real leftists” or “authoritarians deserve the wall” and it makes me feel like they they just want to kill a bunch of non-white third-worlders

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Online anarchists are heavily misguided in their hatred for "tankies" and "authoritarians" but I promise you with all my heart that none of them think of "non-white third-worlders" when they are saying that shit. They're thinking of also very-online MLs they interact with on twitter, who are at the very least first worlders and likely white. Anarchists that say this shit mostly are just too uninformed to know that most third world leftists are MLs or MLMs.

      • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        This is true. There are definitely issues with irl Anarchist movements, and I think you can probably draw a line from the CIA funding philosophers like Foucault to their preeminence in the first world but online leftists of all stripes are cringe.