volodya_ilich @ volodya_ilich @lemm.ee

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It's cool to be an anti-authoritarian communist. It's not cool to spend half of your breathing time to talking shit about past leftist projects which were by all metrics less evil than capitalist ones.

Well I've never eaten bread while riding a bike either

Tankie is when you spam anti-US imperialism on inappropriate communities.

As said on the post, there were no guidelines on the sidebar and no posts in the community, so by whose standards is it inappropriate. Spreading anticapitalist propaganda doesn't make someone a tankie ffs

your ideas

My ideas being "stop doing supporting fascist dictatorships and stop creating famines in Bengal", right? Because what else do you know about my ideas from the post?

Just like in your mind it's a binary choice between US imperialism and red imperialism

Again, you're making things up and accusing me of things I haven't said, and accusing me of being a tankie because you assume my ideology to be a given one. You may think I'm tone deaf, you may think my critique here is not legitimate, and all of that's cool, but how am I a tankie?!

Because anti-communists will bicker about every single thing they've been taught not to like about communism and remain quiet in terms of criticism to the current system

a tankie like you

...and there we go, the magic word to end all discussion in this platform. You guys keep disregarding any and all criticism of capitalism and accusing it of whataboutism and tankieism. Again, how many days have to pass from whichever commemoration of a heinous act committed by a communist project until people can discuss the problems of capitalism and imperialism without fear of being accused of being tankies?

And I fully agree with that, it's good that the platform is resilient against censorship. I just disagree with jumping on the bandwagon of the people who accuse people of being tankies and then proceed to censor anti-western imperialism historical posts.

As explained in my post, the community had no content prior to my upload.

I checked the community and it’s all complaining about ml and tankies

As I said, I was the first post in the community, I'm not going to an established community with a topic to troll them, I'm going there to express other grievances that are equally important to remember in my opinion.

OP was banned with the comment “commie?” and honestly I get why. It sounds like a tankie move

How is commie=tankie? This is exactly my point, the word "tankie" is so abused in lemmy.world that anything to the left of centrism is categorised as such.

tankie move to post anti-US imperialism stuff to a community like that.

"Tankie is when you post anti-US imperialism". Again, absolutely misusing the word and accusing everyone who posts any complaint about western imperialism of being a tankie.

the account is also 3 days old. I wonder if it’s an alt from a ml person

Good concern, I'm not, I'm actually new to Lemmy, and I'm very surprised to find the word "tankie" in every fourth comment, used most times to refer to anyone who doesn't buy "US good China bad"

And, again, linking communism with being a tankie when you say "a reference to Lenin makes it suspicious". People don't have to preface every leftist commentary with a 10-page essay condemning the failures of historical communist projects any more than people criticising Hitler don't have to preface the commentary with a 10-page essay on the atrocities committed by allies in WW2.

Your posts there, while not wrong and not even necessarily disagreed with by the people there

They were the most upvoted posts in the community, so no, they weren't disagreed at all

were off topic

How can it be off-topic? There's no declared purpose of the community in the sidebar other than a few rules, and were literally the first posts of the community

and obviously just an attempt at whataboutism

Making an entirely new post in an entirely new community is an attempt at whataboutism? I happen to be Spanish and to take the issue of fascism very seriously, since my ancestors suffered it directly and I still suffer its consequences. What part of making a new post about it is whataboutism when I'm not even comparing it to anything??

posting things that you know are likely to get you removed

Wait, a post about fascism in Spain, and a post about a famine in India, are going to get me removed? Do you realize what you're saying? People aren't allowed to talk about other international grievances for how long exactly after the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre without getting accused of whataboutism, being Tankies, and getting banned? Do you realize how anti-communist discourse works?

the term "commie" as a synonym for tankie is wrong

That's not what they did. They banned me for being a communist, not a tankie, they didn't use it as a synonym.

the behaviour of tankie mods

I'm not here to argue about that, that's a topic that has been discussed a lot already in the original post, I'm here to talk about bad faith actors jumping in the supposedly anti-tankie reaction to ban anti-imperialism content and anything that smells of communism.

You mean tankie

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Millennials discover surplus value (1850s concept)

"pseudo science"

It's a website with "wtf" in its name, chill. It just shows the degradation of purchase power firstly as a consequence of the 70s oil crisis, and then as a consequence of increased neoliberalism.

Prices are already included in the graph, that's the meaning of "real" wages, i.e. inflation-adjusted

less politically biased

There's no such thing as "less politically biased", it's just that you don't perceive the things that align with the center of the overton window as political.

every person who survived/escaped those reigemes described them as hell

This is patently false, you're either mistaken or lying. During my PhD in a western European country, I had the pleasure of working with several Chinese students and supervising the thesis of even more of them. Of all the Chinese students, all except one returned to china after finishing their studies because they prefer life in China. I made it a point to ask about their opinions on the government, and the approval rate of their government is so much higher than the approval rates of governments that we have in the west. If you look up any poll on this topic you'll find the same conclusion: Chinese people are on average happier with their government than westerners are with theirs.

About the USSR, a majority of the citizens were against the dissolution of the country and a transition to liberalism, so again, you've been misled or you're lying.