• Ferrous@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    So you dont see any hypocrisy with elevating someone who said

    “…But the more we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed the next war. For the more I see of these Indians the more convinced am I that they have all to be killed, or be maintained as a species of paupers.”

    to be the “patron saint” of your sub, and then spend the next 5 posts attempting to dunk on the concept of leftist critical support? Is this post not critical support? What gives?

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      2 months ago

      Yes, you caught me, I mock tankies claiming to engage in ‘critical support’ because I don’t believe that flawed leftist entities can be praised, not because ‘critical support’ is all-too-often a paper-thin covering for mindless campist bootlicking of the sort that justifies single candidate elections as True Workers’ Democracy™ and China’s private sector exploding since the 80s under an immensely authoritarian single-party state as The Proletariat Truly Reclaiming The Means Of Production With The Help Of The People’s Billionaires; or that Iran’s clerical fascism is some heroic third way fighting against the capitalist menace.

      You caught me. I’ve never praised Yugoslavia despite its flaws either, nor have I expressed support for anarchist Catalonia, nor even for the Soviet Union itself against the literal fucking Nazis, nor praised Khrushchev or Gorbachev. I just don’t believe in critical support of leftist efforts. I’ve praised Nasser and Tito and Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and Thomas Sankara, but I don’t throat every red-painted boot I see, nor do I ignore the very real and serious flaws of those I have praised - so clearly I don’t believe in ‘critical support’. That’s why I hate the True Leftists who can’t take the jackboot out of their goddamn mouths. I will immediate begin a struggle session to atone. I hope the Great Genius can forgive me for my immense sins against the proletariat.