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i made a post a while back about how a 'anti-tankie' comm in particular had a lot of talk about wanting to get rid of 'degenerate roaches' without any real moderation going on.
i find that kind of talk a lot more offputting than tankies.
i've run into a lot of people on here saying some gross ass shit and getting away with it because as long as they're targetting 'tankies' anything goes.
usually when someone's deploying the line 'tankie bar' it's because they frequent meanwhileongrad, it is hosted on the same server as the person i was replying to, they even have a post history there.
So let's do the ultimate test: In your oppinion: is there any scenario where deploying the military (tanks) against civilians is a legitimate course of action?
obviously not, i am not a fan of state violence broadly.
now please let me reverse it: is there any scenario where using 'sanctions' or other economic warfare against a civilian population is a legitimate course of action?
Okay, not a tankie then.
In credit of the other poster though, most people on ml do defend the udssr doing that, so calling ml a tankie bar is not that far fetched.
And of course: no there is no way starving people is a legitimate course of action, ofc I condemn the Cuba blockade, friends of mine even went there this summer to help. If you think I even remotely defend US politcs you heavily misunderstood my words.
(I consider myself a Marxist if this wasn't clear)
that's good to hear. i actually appreciate these spaces because i would rather know what the heterodox opinions are, the us media ecosystem is extremely anticommunist, pro-murica, and shallow. i organize with anarchists in my day to day, i consider myself an anarchist. i also have many comrades that i've shared struggle with over the years who are marxists, and that always made the everpresent online animosity feel weird to me.