Had a heated argument with a tankie who glorified stalin and lenin. So fucking tired. The worst thing he’s a discord mod of a good streamer, and i left the server because i can’t be there anymore. Context: i’m russian whose grand-grandparents were repressed and forcibly relocated. Left Russia several years ago because i didn’t want to support the aggressive war in Ukraine. And his american (no offense to amreicans tho) ass tried to explain me that stalin is an actual hero who singlehandedly saved Europe from fascism, and all repressed were rich “bourgeois land owners” (actually, no. but even if yes, that’s a terrorism). Then he and other user started posting stupid tankie memes. Ofc they ignored my questions how LGBT+, religious groups and small nations were treated and deleted the message. I’m sick of that shit. Needed to vent somewhere.
In my experience their only answer is “Well I would have not done that” while offering no ideas about what they would have done instead. Frictionless idealism untainted by contact with the demands of reality.
thats a great way to describe people who are turned off by marxism or “authoritarian” socialism more broadly.
it explains why the same people will act like they “owned” you because you can’t, just on command, articulate how every facet of a perfect utopian society would look under socialism. nevermind they couldnt do that for anarchism and certainly can’t do it in defense of neoliberal capitalism
Uh we just need to use the dictatorship of bourgeoisie state to kindly ask its ruling class to go against the first principle of capitalism and give up profits. Otherwise known as “tax the rich”