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It really just comes off as 100% online-thought when I see anyone talking about tankies, I've never heard someone say it IRL. When I got more specific knowledge about socialism growing up I started calling myself an anarchist, and then when actually engaging in activity with leftists I found the MLs and 'tankies' ~~were more serious~~(revising this because the anarchists I've known irl are plenty serious and do good work like help feed people with impromptu kitchens etc) and had a more rigorous ideology that truly supported anti-imperialist action and groups. I think whatever type of leftist you are we need to start with dismantling the current state, so at this stage it just seems like a waste of energy to worry about whether the other leftsts are too left or not left enough, as long as they aren't libs.
Anyone calling out 'tankies' really needs to evaluate their positions and whether or not they are unconsciously parroting the imperialist's view of 'authoritarian socialists'.
(revising this because the anarchists I've known irl are plenty serious and do good work like help feed people with impromptu kitchens etc)
Those Actually Existing Anarchists are also called "tankies" by anarkiddies, because it is authoritarian to make them feel bad about their lack of action in the real world.
I had a DSA member tell me to watch out for tankies irl. Many of them might know better than to say it out loud, but plenty of real organizers believe tankies exist and need to be purged
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5/10 see me after next sectarianism class
My wife and I saw you from across the room and thought you were an undialectical idealist.
I realized a while ago the only reason these kids constantly (try to) debunk On Authority is because it's the shortest piece on anarchism they can find by a reputable Marxist and they will be damned before they read anything longer than a few pages.
Unfortunately a lot of anarchists do read anarchist lit which just affirms all their positions but unlike materialist works, doesn't require any evidence for the reader to accept it. The vibes and validation is all they need to say "see I have read and what I read says you are wrong"
A ton of the most popular anarchist lit, which is right wing and of the objectivist school such as The Problem of Political Authority, isn't read by either socialists or left wing anarchists. I don't think it's neccesarily true that anarchist lit is unified enough to re-affirm a unified position. I do however think that anarchists hate reading longer works critiquing anarchism because many of them are written by people like Stalin, who as we all know killed every human being on earth multiple times and therefore his books on dialectical materialism and Socialism or Anarchism are ontologically invalid. That such criticisms of personal character also apply to their own authors is invalid because the only crime worse than causing harm is Possessing Power which, as is unfalsifiable, mutates the human spirit and corrupts in ways that make all existing revolutionary efforts that aren't anarchist invalid.
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