Socialists start from the view that all people are equal, regard national and individualistic chauvinism as contrary to our deep moral obligations, stress how we have more in common as finite, vulnerable human beings than what separates us, and want to use reason and science to build a better society for all. Fascists believe that people are fundamentally unequal from birth and become more so over time, insist that “higher” nations and races have special rights to preserve and strengthen themselves even at the expense of the weak, regard this as a reflection of the inner greatness that distinguishes them from lower forms of life, and reject humanism and rationalism in favor of a struggle for supremacy and domination. Their worldview thus licenses enormous violence against socialists and other “low” enemies.
First they came for the Tankies and I said nothing…
In hindsight, we could really use some tanks about now
Anti-West fascists cosplaying as communists are still fascists. If there’s going to be infighting, interrupting it only helps them.
You would have supported the murder of Rosa Luxemburg.
Yeah tankie praxis only works if you actually have the tanks. And not just some tanks, the tanks. You need the military apparatus of the state, and its associated monopoly on violence, to make that work.
It was never going to work when the opponent is the existing military. It’s gotta be grassroots, nothing else is gonna work. Build your community. Like actually, do it.
Marxist leninists have historically been by far the most successful at fighting against existing militaries.
ftfy
I’d consider that a subset.
You might consider it a superset.
Is there a reference I’m not getting? Guerilla action is grassroots, but there’s non-guerilla grassroots action