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Socialism_Everyday

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  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • I am a liberal. Proudly. And I don't mean the kind of wishy-washy liberal that American center-left calls themselves, but the real thing

    The real thing? So, are you proposing economic liberalism and laissez-faire? This is ridiculous

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • But anarchists are definitely also in favour of forcing their views on others by a threat of violence? Like, I'm a Spaniard, the anarchists famously resisted fascism in the Spanish Civil War using weapons. Projects often praised by anarchists such as the Rojava or Zapatistas also have plenty of violent power in their region, and exert it when needed to defend their project and ideology.

    I don't like your framing of "right wing essentialism" in Marxists, it sounds almost eugenicist the way you're describing it, as "people predisposed to authoritarianism". I'm a tankie not because I love state violence, but because the only large societies that have managed to actually collectivize the lands and resist western imperialism have been Marxist-Leninist. Failure to utilize such state repression mechanisms against fascists and capitalists is what led to the fascist coup in Spain, to the failure of the German revolution, or to the murder of Allende.

  • wisdom

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  • What do Russia, China or the DPRK have to do with stochastic acts of violence against capitalists?

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    ceos job is playing golf

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  • Efficiency doesn't need to be the highest prioritized metric in a business. It's pretty important, but there are more important things

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  • Tankie here. Marxists-Leninist don't condone stochastic violent acts during capitalism against Capitalists, the word we use to refer to such tactics is "adventurism", and it's criticized heavily.

  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • I would certainly react negatively if my neighbor who previously started a war against me and declares ownership of my home bought $11bn in weapons from the USA.

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  • You shouldn't rely on Wikipedia for geopolitically relevant events. Fortunately, the Russian revolution was early enough that the CIA didn't exist at the time, so there's a decent Wikipedia article about it

  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • Per the article:

    cut off the island from outside support in a conflict

    So, preventing US interference in case of a conflict. This says nothing about invasion.

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  • You don't support the invaded countries. Taiwan is a land illegitimstely invaded by the Kuomintang and its citizens deserve to be liberated from western puppeteering. You support the western manufactured continuation of the island's government because you align with the west.

    Have you once expressed your support of Gaddafi in this website against western invasion and meddling? Your support of Cuba and Venezuela? Your support of Mosaddeq in Iran? Your support of Lenin against external invasion by England, France, Germany, Italily and the USA during the Russian civil war? Your support of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala? You dont support the invaded countries, you support what the western agenda tells you to support

  • 9/10 times, there's your problem right there...

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  • You can't explain why the same thing happened in Capitalist countries

    This is false, though. a few capitalist countries, particularly in western Europe and in North America, industrialized at the expense of the rest of the world through colonialism and imperialism since the 1800s, but since the end of WW1, only a minority of capitalist states have actually developed and industrialized, most of them being small European nations still. No fast industrialization with massive life quality boosts happened anywhere in Latin America or Africa, and in Asia only in US puppet regimes utilized as weapons against China. If India had applied the policies that China or the USSR did, hundreds of millions of lives would have been saved from disease and starvation over the past 100 years.

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  • I doubt the war would have been avoided had there been a referendum tbh. I know that the Russian government utilizes the ethnic Russians of eastern Ukraine and their oppression under Ukrainian rule as an excuse for the invasion, but IMO the primary reason is the political drift to the west of Ukraine. Russia wants to maintain its sphere of influence as do all world powers, but doesn't have the soft-power tools to do this against EU+USA. Given the latter two messing up with the Russian sphere of influence in Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova etc, I don't think referenda in eastern Ukraine would have helped much, unless they had been accompanied by a tightening of Ukraine-Russia relations.

  • Western "anticapitalists" be like

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  • No, kinda the opposite. I hate neoliberalism, neocolonialism, Eurocentrism and American exceptionalism, but I love the people and want them to enjoy their lives without unemployment, without houselessnes, without food insecurity, without exploitation and without wars

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  • You say this while supporting a military US ally?

  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • China is literally doing this in response to Taiwan escalating by purchasing $11bn in US weapons, it's specified on the article itself. China did not start this

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  • This whole thing is a response to Taiwan spending $11bn in US weapons, of course the exercise is about Taiwan, what are you talking about?

  • Western "anticapitalists" be like

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  • Anti Western propaganda? Yes. Russian-backed? Unfortunately no, I wish I got paid for this

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  • I did not say "China getting invaded" though, did I? I specified the possibility of a military blockade of China's seas

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  • In case of military conflict between Taiwan and China, what's your point? You just assume that it's a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan because you're a propagandized westerner, but it could very well be an economic blockade of the China sea by US + regional puppets

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  • In response to Taiwan buying $11bn in US weapons, China carries out a military exercise in which it simulates a Taiwan encirclement to prevent it from US military involvement, yes