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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.
A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.
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You cannot use the state to defeat the state
How do you prevent counterrevolution without a state?
ML casually admitting they don't believe in communism, nothing to see here.
By not murdering people en masse to achieve change, but through slow organic growth of support to secure a mandate. It's happening, but too slowly for tankies. They want to skip all that by mass murdering elected officials and government emoyees and their families, taking power without any kind of public support outside their own faction, then having to continue the mass murdering of dissidents to hold that power.
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Can you imagine Cuba being able to resist US imperialism without a state?
Cultivate a culture where you would never require a counter revolution, where the least fortunate people's needs are met so they don't need to kill people to thrive.
What do you mean require? Counter-revolutions are enacted by the oppressor (or former oppressor) class who don't want to lose their privilege.
There's no solution where someone like Elon Musk loses his control of tens of thousands of people's labor and doesn't seek to reimpose his control.
Historically, they use what influence they still have to reimpose the old order and kill everyone who threatened their privilege. Here's one example