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ziq OP wrote

But linking some dumb fuck north american / anglo anarchist as a representative of the actual ideology is just being lazy as fuck.

boy did they do their homework on me

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GlangSnorrisson wrote

It seems like part of the requirements for being a tankie is a complete lack of understanding of anarchy, authority, capitalism and actually basically everything.

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ruin wrote

Like any program with a defined beginning and idealized ending it’s a religion. The worship of their idols and their outdated texts they refer to as theory says it all. Calling the dialectical scientific is an insult to science and I don’t care for science much myself to start with.

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GlangSnorrisson wrote (edited )

And much like your traditional zealots they usually have barely skimmed their sacred texts and are often in direct contradiction to their idols’ thought.

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ziq OP wrote

looking at their post history, they're a white north american settler who spends all their time badmouthing other white north american settlers, so it's wild that they've decided to accuse me of being a north american / anglo when I'm neither

if they're so anti-imperialist they should really off themself so there's one less north american white settler shitting up the world

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GlangSnorrisson wrote (edited )

Oh yeah that’s a classic among reddit tankies.

Ime they accuse folks of being white North American settlers when they offer any pushback to some of their more fucked up beliefs.

Or simply if they disagree with them on anything, because tankies understand nothing.

They use the term “liberal” exactly the same way: if you have empathy and aren’t 100% driven by the fantasy of murdering everyone who’s ever looked at you funny, you’re a dirty liberal counter-revolutionary etc etc.

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mima wrote

Western MLs like that Zaratustash is giving us MLMs who are actively struggling in the Philippines and India a bad name. He needs to stop wasting his time rambling about anarchists when he could have used that to organize, arouse, and mobilize.

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OdiousOutlaw wrote

Identity politics, academia worship, the reification of ideology, and an obsession with organization.

The critiques just get to stay relevant!

"Rando caucasoids from White Settler state bad, caucasoids with name recognition from Colonial powers, good!"

"Core theoreticians" technically would also include Stirner and Goldman, but go off. Tankies will forever be lames; the young ones even more so. ziq isn't even a white North American, and the fact that they seem to think that BIPOC can't adopt post-leftism is very telling.

Using "unjustified hierarchy" and misreading Bakunin.

Chomsky's a major gift to MLs, too!

It's really funny how Tanks sound exactly like KHive people.

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GroundFrost wrote

Strict certifying process, that theoretical school of anarchys got. I wanted a degree from there myself, but all i managed was an unpaid internship under chomsky for a few months. Who assured me his exploitation of my unpaid labor was definitely a justified hierarchy. Since it was to save me from lifestylism, much the same way a parent pulls back their kid from walking into traffic. So totally legit and ok.

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