Nonsense catch-all word to put down Marxist-Leninists, and any leftist seriously advocating for revolution.

Liberals and social democrats think we can vote our way out of the evils of capitalism, but we’ll never have the wealthy class’s “permission” to end any of this. The status quo is fueled by violence, blood and oil - but “moderates” treat this as acceptable violence, unlike “Communism” which engages in that “Evil, authoritarian” sort of violence.

Violence caused by our inaction towards capitalist exploitation is no better than violent pro-activeness. In the words Canadian rock legend Geddy Lee: “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

I’ve seen “Tankie” pulled out on Lemmy and Reddit over things like:

• Suggesting a revolution is required to stop global capitalism, and that we cannot vote our way out of Capitalism

• Countering common narratives that paint US Geopolitical Adversaries and Existing Socialist/Communist regimes as comically evil villains.

• Criticizing the western perspective on the Russia/Ukraine conflict, and by extension criticism of Ukraine, or praise for Russia

• Suggesting that violence against Nazis is ok

I mostly get the impression that people don’t like violence, and dislike the idea that capitalism may need to be opposed through violence. Though I’ve also seen it thrown out at suggestions that capitalism should even be defeated at all. It feels like a poison tbh, we really should just be uniting against capitalism.

Neither of those things are even like, the top 3 things that are stopping you from having clean air.

That poster at the top is Muncher Of Mushroomland by Chris Dyer/Positivecreations if anyone is interested. Love that dude’s work.

All Snakes are Bastards

Who gets to decide what is and isnt “political”?

I’ve been enjoying Los Bitchos

Yeah he was arrested for downloading a massive amount of documents/articles off JSTOR with a computer hidden in an on-campus closet. He ended up committing suicide before going to trial for it

Another reason to say “Fuck cars!”