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Sorry, tankies, but opposing war is something Stalin—and by extension Hitler, because they are identical men—would do. And as Putin is Hitler, that means Putin is also Stalin, ipso facto you support World War 3.
"a standing ovation for an SS nazi is fine, just don't question the bourgeois line on the proxy war"
The government has to apologize for that event after some zionist organization broke it (of course there were some left adjacent orgs that looked into it before hand but it was not taken seriously)
i don't think the NDP needs Yve Engler to destroy the party, Singh doing entryism for the Liberals for years did that.
Lmao these assholes are absolutely allergic to power. "No we can't have a leader that takes an actual radical stance! It'll kill the party you tankie! We have to keep being a more useless version of the liberals, that's doing great for the party" 
how long till libs in the NDP accuses Yves Engler of being Hamas?
He got arrested last year for Palestinian activism when some nameless organization astrotuffed a smear campaign against him
He was arrested four months ago, and it wasn't a "nameless organisation" it was a psycho zionist named Dahlia Kurtz
https://yvesengler.com/2025/03/04/my-5-days-in-jail-as-political-prisoner-for-criticizing-israel/
WASP looking ass woman
Everyone I don't like is a tankie! 
doing the bare minimum of Canada's claimed mission in upholding international law is being tankie/hamas
International law is tankies
Singh already did the job of killing whatever little that was left of NDP after Mulcair but sure it's "tankies".
living at the same time as reddit is so embarrassing man.
putin is not far right
Putin is a reactionary autocrat who embodies the worst traits of State tyranny - nationalistic, militaristic, and hostile towards personal and workplace freedom - even if his oligarchic capitalism and Soviet nostalgia contradict a strict 'far-right' label.
autocrat
"Putin has absolute personal power" and other lines favored by Anne Applebaum
Why yes, Putin is an autocrat, his highly personalized and centralized system of power lacks meaningful checks and balances. He suppresses dissent, and operates largely on his personal whims rather than any sort of institutional governance.
seems like this is so subjective it can be applied to any government you don't like. I don't think you have any real evidence for it all being his personal whims beyond Applebaum-tier articles in The Atlantic. on a larger level, this is Great Man Theory bullshit with zero material analysis
My cat is autocratic when he decides that dinner time should be at 5 instead of 6.
Is he the shaytan al akbar however? Perhaps he's a shaytan al saghir, tho.
Opposing one tyranny by excusing another betrays the essence of liberation - solidarity fights all oppression, not just the West's. Revolutionary ethics demand consistency, selective outrage that shields authoritarianism under the guise of anti-imperialism is not how we should conduct ourselves.
authoritarianism
gotta be my favorite way to dismiss any use of state power I don't agree with
Russia is deeply authoritarian, and built on the oppression of the people by the State and capital. What would you consider authoritarianism to be?
so authoritarian is when capitalist state? that doesn't seem like a useful definition to me
I'm sorry that you find the word 'authoritarian' upsetting, however it does have a commonly agreed upon definition. I personally see no need to pretend otherwise.
oh it does? what is it?
Whether you go by Juan Linz's definition - the origin of the term as used in a political sense - or Bob Altemeyer's later refinement it's clear that Russia fits this label as it was laid out by its originators.
So no, I do not use terminology on the basis of my personal likes or dislikes. I use these terms because they mean something, as laid out by the political theorists who originated them.
So again, I apologize that some words may make you feel itchy, or maybe a little self-conscious. Through, you should note that self-reflection is good, and you shouldn't shun perceivably negative terms because they may (or may not) play into your belief system.
A word has a meaning of how its used. Its used as "a country liberals (white supremacists) don't like" (because it doesn't let its citizens get genocided by the west).
Also Putin is white
Putin is allied with netanyahu. Are ALL lemmists dumb?
Hey, I'm not! It's amusing that authoritarian socialists get accused of excusing authoritarianism under the guise of anti-imperialism, while failing to address the reactionary nature of regimes like Putin's though indeed. Especially to the point of proudly exclaiming that the term 'authoritarianism' has no value in theory or praxis - a dead give away to their true nature, and oddly incapable of owning such a label.
What would you consider authoritarianism to be?
A meaningless, inconsistently applied word born out of a fetish for idealism that is primarily used to deem any state opposed to Western hegemony as irredeemable and worthy of condemnation.
Russia is definitely ruled by westerner lmao.
The weapon industry need enemies. Ever heard of the 90ies when America coup'ed russia and they starved for 10 years
Authoritarianism is when sovereign and not ruled by westerners (according to the way imperialists use the word)
Its a good thing (for us, not for you)
Russia is literally ruled by westerners. Both in a colonial sense (Siberia is a colony), political (they're an oligarchy) and in the geopolitical one.
If their oligarchs don't create wars how else is Lockheed Martin supposed to sell missile?
Putin is literally the tsar.
"Authoritarianism bad"
Imperialist detected. Are the pesky authoritarians putting up resistance to your world genocide again, instead of rolling over like you want them to?
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch06.htm
The same must be said of the revolutionary character of national movements in general. The unquestionably revolutionary character of the vast majority of national movements is as relative and peculiar as is the possible revolutionary character of certain particular national movements. The revolutionary character of a national movement under the conditions of imperialist oppression does not necessarily presuppose the existence of proletarian elements in the movement, the existence of a revolutionary or a republican programme of the movement, the existence of a democratic basis of the movement. The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism; whereas the struggle waged by such "desperate" democrats and "Socialists," "revolutionaries" and republicans as, for example, Kerensky and Tsereteli, Renaudel and Scheidemann, Chernov and Dan, Henderson and Clynes, during the imperialist war was a reactionary struggle, for its results was the embellishment, the strengthening, the victory, of imperialism.
Putin is allied with netanyahu
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Anyway i hope you're loved ones are ok friend. Free palestine
thanks
Guy in 1916: jee I don't wanna die in a trench
Obnoxious idiot: OMG wouldn'y that make you a tankie?