I tried explaining my problems with tankies without calling them tankies. In fact, I used their own terminology to describe my disagreement with them. It, uh… well it doesn’t make a lot of sense.

George Orwell fought in the Spanish civil war on the side of the Marxists. His army was betrayed by the Marxist-Leninists. After that experience, he wrote 1984, in which a totalitarian government uses “newspeak” to suppress dissent by suppressing the very ideas that people are capable of communicating. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Marxist-Leninists describe their disagreements in terms that turn criticism of them into gibberish. I think it’s exactly what Orwell was writing about based on his experiences.

  • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee
    102·
    2 days ago

    OP is talking about tankies and ML and how he doesn’t like them, but the meme he posted doesn’t describe those.

    also

    Anarchists are communists. No one thinks anarcho-capitalists are anarchist except themselves and those they’ve misinformed.

    • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
      34·
      2 days ago

      No one thinks anarcho-capitalists are anarchist except themselves and those they’ve misinformed.

      How isnt anarcho-capitalism a form of ancarchy? Like there’s no state, and if some company starts acting like a state, then its not anarchy anymore.

      • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
        81·
        1 day ago

        Anarchy isn’t just “no state”, is also non authority by force. Anarchic capitalists think that companies should rule and impose their will by force.