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Frankly this is some No True Leftist stuff. Tankies want to bring about socialism via an intermediary step of brutality. You could definitely argue that such a step is not True Socialism, and I think you'd be right, but I took a shit today that wasn't True Socialism so does that mean the next thing I did was not socialism?
For the record, I don't like tankies either, but there's plenty of space to push back against them without relying on bad faith arguments.
You aren't browsing their coms. They want to put leftists "on the wall" -sic, too. Everyone's pretty fortunate that they don't go outside and stick to ordering delivery
Yes I am.
They want their label of socialism, not yours. And it's a rather brutal one.
There's no way to know that, so I keep such blanket declarations to myself, as should you.
In my opinion, the biggest problem with tankies is that they are "ends justify the means" people.
Some of them seek a benevolent end-state. Some seek an end-state that personally benefits them. There's no way to tell which is which.