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Yeah, from any experience I have with actual, real life “leftists” it’s that they’re by and large exceedingly normal people who are very willing to like… politely sit in on the local dems meeting because everyone involved knows there’s about an 80% overlap in desired policy.

“Tankies” are more like people role-playing a particular ideology, in the same spirit that new “trad catholic” people are largely just role playing weather they know it or not, and most of them grow out of it by 25 or so. Exceedingly few of these people actually practice these views in any significant way in the real world.

Yeah, accelerationism is actually what I am referring to but it's spreading.

It's rejected in some spaces and overly welcome in others. The issue is staunch belief in self right tends to mean there is a lack of joined support except for specific groups with easily shared identity.

I've been banned from "entry" leftist spaces that are not considered tankie spaces because I questioned the use of spreading GOP propaganda pieces and the general consensus is shifting towards letting it burn which comes with all the dangers of the working class being roasted alive.
It is probably true that they make up a smaller percentage but are making up most of the vocal conversations at this point. And they aren't just in small spaces.

Honestly I think it's actually right wing groups doing this push trying to get more leftists to consider a loss by the Democrats in the US as the victory needed to get more leftists in power. Which is absolutely not how that would go. But it does seem to be working in groups that are neither silent nor very small. And it's a shocking amount of the conversation.

Anarchism is about literally believing in no structure needed for society. Yeah I understand that any kind of system is incompatible but that also means it's a free for all. So nothing to stop anyone from throwing bombs. Or enslaving children or adults or anything else for that matter. Might would prove right and mighty will come for their pound of flesh from everyone else. Anarchy is anarchy, it won't come without awfulness.

And for the leftists. I'm referring to the ones that use right wing slang, call the US Blue party "Demo-KKK-rats" say that helping anyone as a Democrat is akin to helping a fascist anyways. The idiots who spout all kinds of nonsense that really doesn't actually help anyone but checks to see if you agree completely with them and means they will be isolated and without popular support.

And actually I am referring to Nazis since they ran on calling themselves socialist and supporting the people only to have the leaders who just wanted power to scrap the concept for conquest. No country is anarchist because then they couldn't have rules to consider themselves a country.

Anarchism isn't even a leftist ideology it's straight up off the chart because the only way it works is if you don't care about anyone or anything else. And sure is a lot easier to think that way then accept that it's dumb.

Go look up the phrase “After Hitler, our turn!” And report back with your learnings from actual history.

When revealed is doing a lot of heavy lifting there and even then that is not entirely accurate to the reality of the situation. There isn't a unified response just the people likely to still be fighting against authoritarianism at any point are likely going to be left leaning in the spectrum by nature of their dissatisfaction of the current system. And even then the fighting force is generally not the leftists but the allies on other parts of the spectrum that they gain.

It's not like an Isolationist country was super excited to fight against fascism, just seemed like the right path forward with coaxing.