I tried explaining my problems with tankies without calling them tankies. In fact, I used their own terminology to describe my disagreement with them. It, uh… well it doesn’t make a lot of sense.

George Orwell fought in the Spanish civil war on the side of the Marxists. His army was betrayed by the Marxist-Leninists. After that experience, he wrote 1984, in which a totalitarian government uses “newspeak” to suppress dissent by suppressing the very ideas that people are capable of communicating. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Marxist-Leninists describe their disagreements in terms that turn criticism of them into gibberish. I think it’s exactly what Orwell was writing about based on his experiences.

    • Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 months ago

      The subset of communists that do not support a state-backed socialist transition and argue for direct implementations of communism are precisely (mostly) anarchists/libertarians, i think that’s what they were saying, so this would be compatible with them being communists.

    • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee
      42·
      8 months ago

      OP is talking about tankies and ML and how he doesn’t like them, but the meme he posted doesn’t describe those.

      also

      Anarchists are communists. No one thinks anarcho-capitalists are anarchist except themselves and those they’ve misinformed.

      • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        8 months ago

        No one thinks anarcho-capitalists are anarchist except themselves and those they’ve misinformed.

        How isnt anarcho-capitalism a form of ancarchy? Like there’s no state, and if some company starts acting like a state, then its not anarchy anymore.