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Gotta be 196 they're the only ones uneducated enough to say this.
The actual neoliberals are like "Yeah duh that's just socialists".
The rest of the socialists are like "Yeah duh that's just socialists".
The only people that act like this are the radlibs that believe they are left wing anticapitalists but fundamentally know absolutely nothing about political ideologies at all.
I can smell a Vaushite 
from miles away.
Yup, it was 196, and the OP even made the genius move of crossposting it to /socialism, that's where I saw it lol
i'll take one radlib please, heavy on the lib
Yeah, and the sky is blue.
At this point I wonder what a non-tankie communist is to these kind of folks. So far being against NATO, not supporting the EU welfare state ("Nordic model"), pointing out Nazis in Ukraine, critical support for the axis of resistance, etc. makes you a tankie. By that metric a non-tankie is more or less a lib.
They're libs that want free healthcare, basically.
Free healthcare for me, white supremacist terrorism for thee
free Healthcare for those they think deserve it not all
a non-tankie is more or less a lib
you've got it
A non-tankie leftist is somebody who insists that it would be immoral to use anything but the master's tools to dismantle the master's house.
non-tankie leftist
A βsocialistβ that believes the only successful socialist experiments are in Denmark/Sweden/etc. and that anything to the left of them is not real socialism
A subreddit re-discovering left-communism in a monkeys-with-typewriters style situation is a pretty good bit.
Like r/196 accidentally typing out the entire works of Amadeo Bordiga before they read one single paragraph of ML theory is 
I think I've been seeing more leftcom takes coming up in these sorts pf "anti-tankie" spaces. If I had to guess, I think the best explanation is that a small minority of people are actually reading theory but they never read anything that's positive about AES, these people are the ones posting leftcom takes, and everyone else is as you say.
These are usually the types who say that we need to move past Marx without actually reading any original Marx.
Leftist in thought, liberal in action.
I don't think they're really leftist in thought either, though. It's pretty rare for this kind of person to read Marx, Engels, or even Kropotkin, Luxembourg, Gonzalo, or other writers that are in the communist canon yet are highly critical of the mainline ML theory. I think out of the minority that are reading anything, they're reading post-modernist writers.
To these people world leaders like: 
and 
are radical evil gommunist tankies.
Wtf we have palme emotes i had no idea
He deserves a emote even if he's a euro socdem who criticized the Soviets and China. Dude gave support to the Vietcong and Anti-Apartheid groups, and got killed for it.
Supporting the Viet Cong while not supporting the USSR that actually supported them materially was definitely a choice
People who feel like if the revolution happens, it will happen "for real" in rich western nations first, or in one of their allies countries (e.g. rojava).
screaming leftists infighting when someone says party responsible for genocide should not get vote
Fellas, is it tankie to mention things that happened in world history?
yes. We were all born today and the notion there is such a thing as a "past" is heretical knowledge.
Communist group.
Look inside. See communists.
"These guys are a buncha tankies!"
"shelling the supreme council with tanks in order to force the dissolution of the existing constitution is bad" is such a tankie take smdh smdh
What do we mean by the USSR was illegally dissolved? I guess I don't know much about the actual process of the USSRs dissolution.
There's longer posts but in short, the vast majority who voted did not vote to dissolve the USSR but to reform it.
A referendum on the future of the Soviet Union was held on 17 March 1991 across the Soviet Union. It was the only national referendum in the history of the Soviet Union,[1] although it was boycotted by authorities in six of the fifteen Soviet republics.
The referendum asked whether to approve a new Union Treaty among the republics, to replace the 1922 treaty that created the USSR. The question put to most voters was:
Do you consider necessary the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics in which the rights and freedom of an individual of any ethnicity will be fully guaranteed?
The referendum's question was approved by nearly 80% of voters in all nine other republics that took part. However, the August coup attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party prevented the anticipated signing of the New Union Treaty that was due to take place the next day.
Although it failed, the coup attempt reduced confidence in Gorbachev's central government. It was followed by a series of referendums for independence in individual republics and led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991.
I thought it was run by the American communist party or whatever the fuck they call themselves? I'm not online enough to know who is running what on Reddit dot com
Nah, that's r/AskSocialists
r/socialism is modded mostly by Trots but the sub is pretty non sectarian
Rule 1 please
OP isn't even a mod of r/socialism
Huh 196 sure went to shit.
Yeah... it's not even the liberalism that makes me very sad, it's seeing how shallow and childish they are about politics. They can't really get past some super basic thought terminating cliches and when you see someone push back on those, usually the only back-and-forth that happens is with someone who clearly is arguing from a position of having prepared ultraleftist or very liberal arguments that aren't very substantial. E.g. the replies in this thread. Very just-so arguments. Russia is an empire because it just is. It's authoritarian because it just is. That kind of thing.