Dunking on Tankies from a leftist, anti-capitalist perspective.
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We allow posts about tankie behavior, shitposts, and rational, leftist discussion. Please redirect any Fediverse tankie-posts to !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works to avoid bringing drama to Piefed.social
Curious about non-tankie leftism? If you've got a little patience for 19th century academic style, let a little Marx and Kropotkin be your primer!
Marx's Communist Manifesto, short and accessible! Highly recommended if you haven't read it
For a wider variety of leftist memes, see:
It's also cute that a bootlicker who believes that Russia was 'provoked' into performing genocide in Ukraine came in here with the same two links they've been trotting out for years, one of the two pre-dating the Russo-Ukrainian War, to 'prove' that there's no sympathy for Putin in tankie circles, despite those same links also being filled with people throating Putin for not being an evil Westoid NATO Puppet. Especially considering how pro-Putin tankies have gotten since the Ukraine invasion.
I wouldn't call putin a tankie, as he doesn't claim to be socialist or communist. Putin fits the definition of outright fascist better.
No leftism, all tank. It's the natural end point of the tankie pipeline, lmao
Hum... The guy's call to fame was inventing the "dictatorship of the proletariat" thing and calling for people to create it.
And if you just study his ideas for the economic theory, it was mostly just flat wrong, and the good parts have already been extended into much more useful theories so you won't get anything from it.
The "dictatorship of the proletariat" is contrasted with the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie" - the question is not of a literal dictatorship, but of which class holds political power. Marx, quite explicitly, did not advocate for a form of literal dictatorship, but for a workers' democracy, of which universal suffrage was a basic prerequisite (though insufficient on its own to make a workers' democracy).
Much of his criticism of capitalism remains true, cutting, and insightful to this day; furthermore, Marx is widely and with good cause considered one of the founders of modern academic sociology. His economic thought is generally not taken as dogma in serious economic academia, but there are also few that would deny that his thinking was radical and changed economic thought for the better, both in its own contributions and in the attempts of other thinkers to refute it.
As Marx once said, "If there is one thing that is certain, it is that I am not a Marxist." Marx did not claim to be a prophet. He claimed to be an academic, and history has vindicated him as a damn good one.
A fact that can't be stated enough. It was figurative and philosophical speech. Not a literal call to dictatorship as the D-students of history keep proclaiming. It was a call for the workers to rise up, not to empower a new vanguard bourgeoisie. And repeat the cycle of oppression. But to become ungovernable to all bourgeoisie. And only answer to themselves. To dictate their own terms.