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.
so you admit its yes but you have misguided personal feelings about it because your own family was ‘negatively impacted’.
i cant even sympathize with people like this because their position is that in a situation where the mass of people need to be fed, where the land needs to be collectivized and utilized to achieve this, his family should have been able to keep their privately owned land. which by the very nature of them even having is an indicator of their wealth and status under the previous government
and i also want to know, as an anarchist, what this dude thinks anarchists would have done had they succeeded in their attempts at assassination and moved forward with revolt. he thinks the anarchists wouldn’t have needed to collectivize that land so people could be fed? do these people even think at all about what their views actually are or mean?
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"
Well sure, but have you considered that people combining their resources to care for a population is actually authoritarian, and authority is bad? Checkmate, tankies
Lemmitor about to call Food not Bombs authoritian communist nonsense.