Cross-posted from "TRUE communism!" by @Muaddib@sopuli.xyz in !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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Always good to fight other leftists as fascism closes its grip on the imperial core. Great strategy.
(Posts like this aren't allowed on Hexbear, and for good reason. What value is there in shitstirring like this? Why be needlessly antagonistic? I really don't get it.)
You don't get it we're not leftists, we're red fascists.
Also
Yep, Russia did the thing.
In the meme image.
Authoritarian Communism broke, then it flipped back to Authoritarian Capitalism.
Yep, it had enemies.
Yep those enemies were very involved in helping it to break.
But this still is what happened.
Yep, it took a while.
Sorry the comic is ~80 years long?
Horrible line of reasoning. Anarchist projects have all reverted to capitalism much faster than the Soviet Union did.
Not without being conquered by fascists or red fash. I.e they're internally consistent.
Okay, so stop being a literal child and draw that thought out to its logical conclusions. I did that fifteen fucking years ago and realized, oh, hey, China isn't Literally Evil for Doing Authoritarianism. They exist in a world with the fucking CIA, and all the feel good anarcho idealism in the world isn't going to protect them from their literal fucking terrorism.
If you actually use your fucking brain you'd understand that it matters what "authority" is used "for." Let me spoil it for you- using it to defend a revolution from internal and external reaction and imperialism IS GOOD, UNLESS YOU'RE A FUCKING REACTIONARY.
You don't need hierarchies to defend against imperialism
this is why people like me just laugh and call you a fucking child, because like, what are you even on? What does your revolutionary society look like? How is it organized?
You just out yourself as an ignorant, illiterate fuck who doesn't realize that political anarchism is about the abolition of unjust and arbitrary hierarchies, not some idealist bullshit ass "we need a non hierarchical society" and a belief that you just get there by fucking magic. You are going to need to have a political organization of some kind, and guess what? The establishment of that is inherently fucking hierarchical!
What makes it good is not being a hierarchy based on fucking nobility or property ownership or oppressive class relations, dipshit. You are better off jerking yourself to death in your goon cave than chasing after some platonic ideal of A Lack of Hierarchy when here in the fucking real world the bourgoisie, fascists and cops are closing the noose around your neck and mine.
I'd tell you to grow the fuck up but I know you're just going to keep crying about authority and hierarchy while every single fucking lying weaselly ass statement from your mouth assists the imperialists and the bourgeoisie, whether you know it or not
There's entire books about that. If you want to criticize something so passionately, you should understand what you're criticizing and read up on theory. Or ask your local (instance's) anarchists.
no shit, and none of them say "and we abolish all hierarchy and live in peace and good vibes" like you and dipshit wanna pretend
yes they do
well i’m glad it doesn’t ignore the challenges of reality every system has to face. my impression from what i read of communist literature included stressing pragmatism over idealism (hopefully a good translation of 唯心主义), is that not the case? damned if it isn’t
Tankies :"immature", "anakiddie", "liberal", "reactionary", "ignorant", "waaaa"
Also tankies : "what about that left unity doe?"
A tale repeated since the nonsense that is "on authority"
But thanks for reinforcing to the audience why one just not align with (nevermind trust) MLs.
They’re not calling anarchists idiots. They’re explicitly referring to you who started being combative right out of the gate with this dumb fucking meme
Right, it's not like MLs have been calling anarchists who don't toe the line "infantile" (when not outright labeling them as liberals so as to have an excuse to purge them) since the times of Lenin. Totally isolated incident
Here's an advice, If you don't like this sort of of meme, maybe block anarchism comms outside of your instance instead of coming to in our space to antagonize and troll?
Lmao, why would I block anarchist comms when I consider them to be comrades? You’re the one being antagonistic, not anarchists as a whole.
If you don’t like hexbears calling you out on your shit then maybe you should be the one to disengage and defederate? Anarchists are always welcome on hexbear, but it’s clear that “tankies” aren’t welcome in your comms.
You mean like what you’re doing to us in this meme? That’s a nice glass house you’ve got, try not to throw any rocks.
The meme is not calling you "liberals" lol. Work on it your reading comprehension.
I'm not being antagonistic. I'm just shit posting for anarchists in an anarchist comm, y'all don't have to be here. Why would I defed you when y'all come in such threads and beautifully make my point for me?
Likewise anarchists that don't toe the campist line are absolutely not welcome in hexbear, y'all just get around that by calling them "liberals" before dogpiling and eventually banning them.
Lmao, work on my reading comprehension? You’re using fucking poli-balls. If you think you’re “winning” this engagement, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
Internally consistent, externally non-existent
If your ideology can't stand up against outside forces then surely it's just not a good ideology?
I was an anarchist myself for a long time, and I'm still really sympathetic to anarchist ideas and movements, but for me it's just hard to see it as anything but utopianism when, despite all the good intention and internal consistency, it just can't ever seem to survive contact with the real world.
Well at least communism has consistently survived contact with the real world.
Oh, wait.
Well no, see, those dont count, because reasons.
Maybe if you weren't a complete tool if the capitalist, you would understand this, but i cannot explain. Because it's secret to people who paid attention through all of 'capital'. Which you didn't or obviously you'd agree with me and there would be no need to explain.
So...
The USSR was also destroyed by encirclement and (nearly 100 years) of pressure from reactionaries.
But again, you and and the people on the comm you named after yourself are the ones hypocritically positing that any socialist project that fails is evidence that that project's ideology inevitably leads to capitalist takeover. None of the "tankies" on Hexbear are saying that because it's asinine, but if you actually believe it, to be ideologically consistent, would require condemning anarchism also.
Deeply unserious
Yeah, right... it had absolutely nothing to do with the batshit-insane economic and social blundering of the CPSU.
Nothing at all.
It was literally the fastest growing economic system of all time. It went from wooden hand-drawn plows to spaceflight in a single generation, while defeating the most devastating invasion in human history. The nation once called "the India of Europe" became the first interplanetary civilization.
Then, after the entire collective might of the capitalist world had slaughtered dozens of millions of the bravest and most committed communists, it started falling apart because liberals took over. It was dissolved illegally, against the wishes of 70% of the population that voted in a referendum to keep the Union, in a bloody coup that killed over 2000 people fighting against its destruction. By the end of the 90s there had been 7-10 million excess deaths above the death rate of the 80s in Russia alone, making it one of the worst non-war human-caused humanitarian disasters of all time.
In short, the people of the USSR were revolutionaries and heroes, whereas you are a grotty little chauvinist from the imperial core who doesn't want to improve the world, because if you did you would want to win, and if you wanted to win you would read history, and if you read history you would come to the same conclusion.
Disengage
the only good revolution is the one that fails