I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don’t actually think everyone there is insane. I don’t care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It’s not going to scare me to take this down

  • m_f@midwest.social
    55·
    4 months ago

    The easiness of the solution isn’t how much work is involved. By “neat and easy” I mean, “The root of all evil is capitalism and we solve that with revolution”.

    Black and white thinking pops up again. Why do you think I think socialist states are evil? Why do you think I think everything America does is reasonable?

    It’s another cult-like behavior that is rampant with tankies. “This person thinks this, so I will assign these other views to them as well, so that I may dunk on them”.

    • amber (she/her)English
      82·
      4 months ago

      By “neat and easy” I mean, “The root of all evil is capitalism and we solve that with revolution”.

      This is exactly why they are responding to you as they are. This is not an accurate summary of the marxist position. You’ve built up a strawman to knock down to justify calling us cultish.

      Some basic questions that marxists are concerned with:

      • Why is a revolution necessary to begin with?

      • Who is exploited, and who is the exploiter?

      • What material conditions are necessary for a revolution to be possible?

      • How do you organize society post-revolution?

      • How do you prevent those who oppose the liberation of the proletariat from taking over your post-revolutionary society and destroying it?

      • How do we learn from the successes and the failures of history so that we don’t repeat the same mistakes?

      If you don’t understand the marxist position on these questions, yet continue to criticize us, then of course you will come to nonsense conclusions and just piss people off. You’ve made up a guy to represent us and then mock them.

      • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
        55·
        4 months ago

        we believe revolution is the solution

        Yes, that’s the issue.

        smug liberal enlightened centrist argument

        That’s on you for assuming that just because you don’t like an argument it must be those smug libs.

        tankies of being bootlickers and what not: we

        I didn’t call you a tankie, you self-identified as one

        Do I see smug pricks like yourself going around calling his ass a cultist? No!

        I call out silliness when I see it, but most lib stuff that I come across is of the bland, inoffensive variety. I haven’t been checking this entire thread for everyone that’s wrong, I’ve spent enough time on this already.

        • Cowbee [he/they]
          12·
          3 months ago

          Yes, that’s the issue.

          Where along the Marxist theory of the State with respect to Revolution do you begin to disagree? Fundamentally? Is it with certain aspects?