Why are tankies so fucking retarded? What's their fucking problem? (Also, leave Engels out of your bullshit!)

tankie doesn't even mean anything anymore

Max Stirner.

he has a moral vest tho

Wow, never seen him as an old man before.

Still, putting Thalman and Engles together with them is insulting.

If we're all dead, we're all equal

Just as Marx intended.

As opposed to:

this is what liberalism does to a person

You don't understand what it implies, sorry.

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How's Chinese communism doing? Did you manage to eradicate capital in one country?

That was relatively trivial but then they had to invade Vietnam.

Granted: You guys are good at dishing out but you are absolutely horrible in tanking criticism.

See, that's what communism is about!!!

What's the flag behind Engels?

Some Maoist insurgency, can't remember which.

Looks like the Naxalite flag.

Thanks guys. I really enjoy the "block-style" hammer and sickle. Looks sharp

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please

I keep saying reactionarism is a pathology, not an ideology, and it can be seen on plenty of leftists, starting all the way back with Stalin or possibly even Lenin.

Let's be real, the only reason people who put him over other tankies do so is because of the "gorrillions" propaganda pushing them away from the others. I've heard that there is workers' self-management, but I'm as skeptical of that as I am of claims of it being a reality in Stalin's USSR.

So was Lenin.

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Accepting the state as necessary does not require said state to be a literal dictatorship, by the liberal definition.

Tankies are confused because they haven't really read Marx or thought things through. I know because i once was at least a semi-tankie. That combined with anger at capitalism and feeling of powerlessness results these kinds of brain farts.

I'm critical of Lenin but that's unfair. He did a splendid job telling off Kautsky and other oppoturnists and warmongerers.

Bro, you are universally hated because you have a shitty, mechanical, superficial understanding of Marxism (at best) and you for some reason find it necessary to justify every brutal state to ever exist so long as it you can call it anti-imperialist (even when it's objectively pro-imperialist, like the USSR).

Nope. All m-l I know, including myself, has read a whole lot from Marx-Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Actually i'm pretty dumb compared to my tankie peers, they've read well past them (Voroshilov, Zhdanov, Suslov, Kim(s),etc.)

If they've read so much, why do they still think socialism is "the government doing stuff"?

this fuck sectarian fighting on the left

disgusting. less consumerist identities ("sects", "tendencies" and "left unity") is what we need.

They don't. Socialism is collective ownership of the means of production.

this is looking up names on the soviet union page on wikipedia-tier satire.

additionally where would one read works by voroshilov, zhdanov or suslov?

Evidently the workers don't count as part of that "collective".

I like this screencap.

Well, I do not know. One comrade of mine did scan everything he found on zhdanov and put it here zdanov.blogfree.net/
As for the rest, I know he has an extensive physical collection of books from the Kims and I can assume there's actually stuff online from these authors (maybe on marxists.org?)

This is really low of you. Zhdanov wrote a lot about music, literature and such. Voroshilov was a fine military leader, minister of defense and close friend of Stalin. Suslov was the one that ousted Khruschev.

Yes they do. It is such a claim that they didn't in USSR. Do you know how the economy worked?

this but unironically

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God damn it Tankies.
Greenland wants no part of your Marxist-Leninist autism

Engels was the OG tankie