I still flip flop between ML and anarchism to be honest. I'm ML because of climate change time constraints but anarchist in heart.
Really what I care about is improving things. And I will use whatever toolbox seems to be the best option under the conditions in order to achieve that.
I think third worldism is about to be ripped apart by climate change. We're going to see a very very rapid destabilisation occur from climate refugee movements numbering in the tens of millions. It took just thousands of Syrian refugees to provoke huge EU destabilisation that led to Brexit, Greece, Italy, far right movements, etc etc... What's going to happen when the numbers are in the millions is going to blow it out of the water.
This rapid destabilisation is going to create a lot of revolutionary events.
Yeah I would love for it to be possible for us to simply build our new world and show people a better way, but we are running out of time and more authoritarian measures are going to be necessary.
"more authoritarian measures are going to be necessary."
Welp, that's the gotcha for calling you 'tankie' according to these people.
Use state measures, and they would treat you as oriental orc with no sense... get crushed by authoritarians and they will publicly worship you while secretly celebrating a progressive defeat towards reaction...
We definitely need several conditions to change in the UK before anything revolutionary occurs I'm with you there. Some things are economic and some others could be pushed via some electoral policies, although I don't see a pathway to electoral policies with Starmer and the purge he pulled. A lot of union sentiment has improved, but translating into new union members? I'm not seeing it happen fast enough. Another issue is the misogyny and bigotry that currently exists among MLs in the UK, created by the bizarre attempt at allying themselves with terfs and appealing to the man down the pub. This has been created by tories posing as the bloke down the pub to appeal to reactionaries, and somehow MLs have bought it as the depiction of the average working class person of the UK which is just plain nonsense, they're trying to appeal to a caricature created by the bourgeoisie. Undoing this false mindset is very important to get MLs focused on the actually-vulnerable people, problem is that leadership in these parties is pushing it and there isn't any way to dislodge that leadership without massive entryism from lgbt people who have already almost all left those parties.
I view our struggle currently as less an adventurist revolutionary fantasy on the horizon like I think a lot of newer ML fall into
I don't think there is any problem with having a laser-focus on achieving revolution. It should be the question that guides all work we do, how our work contributes to future revolution, what prerequisites must be met, etc etc. While it's not available as an option right now we should be identifying prerequisites needed for it and working to achieve them.
"tankie" has become such a pavlovian response to these people that the second they hear it they've decided they no longer need to consider anything this person might have to say. Like conservatives the second they hear something is "woke" and they throw a tantrum
It's kind of brilliant in a way. The brainworms prevent them from ever learning, because all it takes is a single concern troll saying "I think these people might be tankies" and they automatically shut down.
tankie has been rhetorically whittled down from its original 1950s CPGB infighting meaning to just a worthless slander against any and all anti-imperialists, regardless of political tendency.
I once described to a liberal friend a dream I had about commandeering a tank, spray-painting the name "Autistic Saudade" on the side, and using it to disperse a neo-nazi rally meant to intimidate refugees and immigrants from "undesirable" countries. My friend said that I "went full tankie on them" and expressed that he was "glad that [I] wasn't a tankie".
...What the hell's that supposed to mean‽ That I'm just supposed to let neo-nazis intimidate refugees without consequence‽
I'm sorry what's wrong with those screenshots? I see not a single problem in any one of those screens????????? Jokes about Blahaj, the IMF and some other stuff, staying inside Hexbear, is not a reason to defederate at all. Weird.
People having a good time joking among themselves on Hexbear is not disruptive behaviour. It's not trolling, it's not disruptive, it's not harassment or abuse. Are there tankies here? Damn right there are. There are also anarchists, democratic socialists and there's probably a socdem hiding somewhere that hasn't yet been bullied too much for being a lib. This is just anticommunism. "Tankie instance" is just "they allow communists". It's incredible colony-brained shit, these people need to decolonise their minds.
these fuckers just can't stop lying. how is it possible that so many people keep repeating that we mass-downvote posts when we literally disabled downvotes years before federating
Oh damn, look at all those purity tests. The liberals deem us "not left enough."
because being leftist is all about waving a rainbow flag during pride month but never actually doing anything to improve the material conditions of our LGBTQ+ comrades. That would be too authoritarian apparently.
pawb.social just stated that they're “the Furry Community's hub on Lemmy.” Will someone from their depleted and neoliberal instance please inform them that we too have a Furry Community, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than theirs, and our Furries can shitpost!