"During the 1930s, many communists and socialists from Germany and Austria sought refuge from the Nazis in the USSR. But in a shocking betrayal, the Soviet secret police handed over hundreds of them to Hitler’s Gestapo… https://jacobinmag.com/2021/08/hitler-stalin-pact-nazis-communist-deportation-soviet
there are legit reason people don’t like tankies, because they hijack communism and betray “their” comrades.
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My issue is not that they are historical ignorant, my issue their continuation of gaslighting and hijacking anarchist/communist movements to place themselves at the lead, the vanguard who knows “the truth”, who knows whats “best” for me and others, those that read such history and will first come up with some justification for the genocides conducted under the USSR. Justifying historical genocides, will result in justifying contemporary genocides.
Question: Whenever criticism against authoritarian communists is presented, why do you always come along as someone to defend them?
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that’s all you do here. not really anything more.
what’s false analogies? Contemporary tankies justify most genocides done under the USSR.
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That’s what they always do. It is called gaslighting. Felix, dev of lemmy, justified Assad and how he cracked down something that started as a simple protest and eventually resulted in mass murder. They will reply with very long threads why [something about CIA] [something about shit libs] [something about the enemy of my enemy is my friend] [something about anti-ameria and justifying any other imperium that takes position against US] and because of that it was necessary.
Nothing more then gaslighting that follows all the time the same patterns.
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what ever genocide it is,tankies will always justify it if it is done by a country that they claim to be an ally.
It is an ideological concept that you can’t disproof with logic. It is an dogma, that justifies itself.
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Great you have a friend. But what’s the point?
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ok: justifying genocides done by the USSR.
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The justification of these genocides is nothing of the past, it happens in this moment. It creates a culture that will legitimize upcoming genocides. And tankies do this. The damage those genocide brought to society is also nothing that is something of the past, it is still present, and so is it important to speak about history and how it relates to the here and now.
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I broadly agree with this sentiment, however, I still find their uncritical support for demonstrably awful states (like states tend to be) distasteful.
Take the Uyghur issue, for example. Occidental propaganda wants us to believe that there’s a literal, Nazi-style physical genocide, which isn’t true. Tankies point that out and claim “victory”, when Uyghurs are living in pretty shitty conditions, and the Chinese state is doing everything it can to erase their culture, even if no physical genocide is happening.
I think I read recently in an anti-cop sublemmy (ACAB? I forgot the name) that being against “all” cops is problematic, because, after all, cops in “proletariat-controled states” exert the will of the proletariat (unlike cops in burgeois-controlled states). And thus, they’re good. 🙄
I get that these people are not a serious political force. And they’re certainly not as insufferable as liberals (and they do much less damage, if any at all). But still.
“If a Nazi justifies the holocaust, that’s not an issue, because those who conducted the holocaust are dead”
nope! that’s not how that works.
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explain what you mean, if what I said doesn’t represent you correct.
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ok, so it doesn’t make sense to me, except that you justify the justification of genocide. “cool”
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