The DM was a DM asking us to change our no tankies policy and remove the fuck tankies banner as it was apparently upsetting hexbear users. Apparently tankies view the word tankie as a form of slur. The admin wants us to ally as a form of “left solidarity”
I’m personally more afraid of being drafted in a war started by russia but whatevs
Oh, so you’ll just say whatever whack shit about the genuine struggle for socialism, but when confronted you drop a “whatevs”. Let me know when you scheme up an anti-authoritarian scheme to build socialism when surrounded by hostile imperialists. We would all prefer that.
What’s your point? Are russia not currently being an imperialist nation? They are invading a country for the sake of territory
My point is you’re changing the subject to Russia (fuck Putin, the invasion is unjustified and horrific, fuck NATO, they are using Ukraine as a puppet to weaken their geopolitical rival and imposing a brutal privatization regime) when we were talking about “authoritarian socialism”. Revolutions are authoritarian. Maintaining the victory of the working class over the capitalist class is authoritarian. The entire point of socialism is to seize authority and wield it for the good of the people, at the people’s direction. There’s no way to do it without authority because you will be crushed by reactionary forces inside and out.
Now, just out of the blue, for no discernable reason, the Russian government decided it would just go ahead and conquer a large population in a land where it would have to fight an insurgency for approximately forever. Yes, this is definitely what’s happening. A tankie might call this pure MSNBC brain, but there is literally nothing else you need to know in order to understand this conflict. Stay strong, and continue to be the smartest person in the room.
Ah yes, I’m fully aware that this only began in February 2022 and not a single moment before. There isn’t a history of russia fucking around for the last decade.