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THIS is why people have a problem with "tankies."
Budapest, 1956.
Whatever you do, don't look up the numbers of Soviet officials lynched before the tanks were sent in, or who the counter-revolutionaries set free from prison to help with the lynching and rioting (spoiler: literal Nazis).
Hey dont forget who funded and equipped the counter-revolutionaires (The CIA)
My family comes from Iran and Iraq
THIS is why I have a problem with "liberals"
Baghdad, 2003
I've been doing antiwar protests since Iraq- absolutely massive and totally ignored by the government. It was a bit radicalizing.
I've always considered myself an anarchist. These days I get called a tankie just for being opposed to wars and vocally opposing my own governments complicity in genocide. Somehow the meaning of tankie got flipped to mean the people opposed to sending in the tanks. Most ml's I've known are the first people to shit on Khrushchev anyways.
Yea, neoliberal ideology is fucked all around. I prefer progressives over self declared libs.
Neoliberals are right wingers
Yes. And there's no actual left in the US. And it's dwindling everywhere else too. Scary times.
Two things can't be bad at the same time, I guess.
Ah yes, the famous liberal, George Bush.
Holy shit guys he almost gets it.
You're right there dude. Micrometers from figuring it out.
When you draw the line of Liberal v Conservative so far to the right it includes George Bush, it ceases to lose all meaning.
Liberalism is the ideological component of Capitalism. Conservativism is a type of Liberalism.
You do know that the wars spanned multiple administrations including democratic ones right? Also all American politicians of "both" parties are liberals.
Bill Clinton launched "Operation Desert Fox" to prepare and position the US imperial army ahead of "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
That is all accurate and I don't disagree with you. But the picture was of an invasion under Bush, not Clinton, so I responded as such.
The problem that I take is l:
I'm wondering what your definition of Liberal is. Up until like 2020, it was Liberal v Conservative and when I look it up in the dictionary I get "Relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise."
But Liberal on Lemmy appears to be anything to the right of a theoretical Star Trek post scarcity utopia.
The internationally recognized measure of left-right. Not the uniquely American one that's skewed all to fuck.
There is no left at all in American politics. The closest we've gotten is Bernie Sanders. He's a moderate everywhere but here.
The war in Iraq has nothing to do with the parties of the US and was an imperial war that would have occurred no matter who was the "president" of the US
Both parties in the US share an ideological commitment to capitalism and function as a uniparty to manage the empire. From the ~~CIA~~ Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property and equality before the law.[1][2] Liberals espouse various and often mutually warring views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally support private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion.[3] Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant ideology of modern history.[4][5]: 11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
This has some good aspects and is an improvement from the monarchies that came before it but he clear problems that Marx brought into question in the 19th century. As capitalists have progressed, liberalism in the US particularly has become neoliberalism which is not something communists want and is a precursor to fascism. Liberals fight socialists and communists to maintain their private property and capitalism.
If you are talking in the context as an American of that ridiculous farce of a government "liberals" means the Democratic party, to an anarchist outsider, they are all liberals. I do not believe in or support private property or market economies and think they come in direct opposition to economic and political freedom.
Noe liberal and neo con differences are how you "kiss babies"/comment on social and cultural issues, while electioneering to make the war mongering big bucks from power.
They have a problem with stopping a fascist counter-revolution that did anti-jewish pogroms and elevated the landlord class in Hungary?
Marxist Leninists are defined primarily by two principles:
It means that the Soviet Union was chiefly responsible for ending the Holocaust and supporting liberation struggles around the world. It means Cuba was able to transform itself from a strip-farmed slave and prostitution hell into a Democratic republic governed meaningfully by the Cuban people with dignity and education for all. All across east Asia it's secured home rule and governments who meaningfully care and are comprised by regular working and peasant peoples. Marxism Leninism is the historical force which has been shown to be most able to grapple with the complex realities of our world dominated by white supremacy and capitalism, and fought back.
It's the reason that the supposed atrocities commuted by socialist countries are minor compared to the grand historic crimes of empires like France, Britain, the US, Germany, Japan, etc. Mistakes are made and have been made by socialist countries, sure, of course; but they were the first nations to attempt to meaningfully house people for the sake of housing. They were the first projects to successfully overthrow colonialism, and to raise literacy rates to an absurd degree even higher than in the United States today. These socialist projects need to defend themselves because very few other historical forces have shown anywhere near the potential to make a better world.
So call it whatever you like, it'll never erase the monumental good it's done for the world.
THIS is why people have a problem with Anti-Communists
Statistics from 80 days into a ~460 day genocide, Gaza, 2025
Beautiful ✨🥲
Were you aware that Russia agreed to USSR's/CIS liberation? All of it was peaceful.