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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago) (1 children)

The "left" is way too broad of a grouping today. The classic political compass is 2D with left-right referring to economic and up-down (authoritarian-libertarian) to social policy. And even that is oversimplifying it, many saying it should be 3D. Grouping everyone into either A or B is I guess what humans do when their understanding of a topic is too narrow.

I find this especially funny with Trump's tariffs. You know, the mechanism with which you control the market... closing it... like leftist economic policy does. Trump is a leftist now? Any more tariffs and he'll be a complete communist! Dismantle more government and he'll be an anarchist! It just completely falls apart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

This is supposed to be a tetrahedron, but I suck at drawing 3D shapes. Just imagine that anarchism is the top of the tetrahedron and that the triangle is the base.

EDIT: Also, yellow is liberalism, if you can’t read it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

There two sides.

1% and their zombies

The rest of us.

Let's not split up and weaken. 💪

[–] [email protected] 3 points 54 minutes ago

That is indeed the two sides depicted in the meme

[+] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

horseshoe theory with "I'm not like other girls" characteristics

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

The term was literally created by Marxists to insult the kind of person who wants to use tanks to suppress a worker's revolution. Tankies aren't communists. They're counterrevolutionaries who want to stop all progress made towards dissolving the state as Marx said.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They were putting chalk marks on the doors of jews and communists. It wasn't a worker's revolution.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demands_of_Hungarian_Revolutionaries_of_1956

We demand general elections by universal, secret ballot are held throughout the country to elect a new National Assembly, with all political parties participating. We demand that the right of workers to strike be recognised.

We demand complete revision of the norms operating in industry and an immediate and radical adjustment of salaries in accordance with the just requirements of workers and intellectuals. We demand a minimum living wage for workers.

So you're saying the revolution demanding minimum wage and the right to strike wasn't a worker's revolution? Are all tankies this right-wing or just you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What do you think "all political parties participating" means in 1956 Hungary?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 46 minutes ago

One of the biggest and most dangerous mistakes made by Communists is the idea that a revolution can be made by revolutionaries alone. On the contrary, to be successful, all serious revolutionary work requires that the idea that revolutionaries are capable of playing the part only of the vanguard of the truly virile and advanced class must be understood and translated into action.

- Lenin, 1922

It probably means they read Lenin and liked his ideas a lot better than Stalin's nonsense. Now, you were explaining how tankies oppose minimum wage and the right to strike?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

We should make a special political spectrum just for these people. Let's call it the imperial political spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Found ⬇️ 87 Liberals who believed they were comrades. 😆

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