i’m NOT even sure if this is the right community for me to post this on. that said, i got banned from hexbear (and now banned from posting stuff on !slop@hexbear.net from this lemmy instance) for “history of repeating us state department talking points, antisocialism and zionism” as well as possible “fedposting”.
i DON’T usually complain about hexbear, but part is me’s glad i got banned from hexbear - of course that site is mostly run by tankies.
of course you DON’T have to be a tankie to support marxism-leninism - i asked this question here, and some people said ‘you DON’T have to support stalin to support ml’.
i think that the ussr would’ve been better off today if the ussr continued to led by a troika after lenin’s death in 1924, but who am i to judge? i prefer lemmy.ml (another lemmy instance).
i apologize to any hexbear people reading this, and i’m sorry i called you tankies. seriously!
“Tankie” is a strawman. It’s a pejorative for Marxists and anti-imperialists, filled with falsehoods and contradictions. The purpose of calling someone a “tankie” is to turn them into this strawman in the eyes of onlookers, it terminates the conversation. I recommend the Prolewiki article on “Tankies,” as well as Nia Frome’s essay “Tankies.”
As for Hexbear.net, they’re great, IMO. They are a left-unity instance that doesn’t allow unjutified critique against AES. There’s plenty of valid critique and discussion of AES, but what gets you kicked out is just parroting imperialist dogma. More than anything, though, the News Megathread is a great resource, and the general site is fun for discussing non-political things like gaming without worrying about bigots.
I also like Lemmygrad.ml, they are more strictly Marxist-Leninist and I tend to appreciate them greatly for theory and news. It’s also far more chill than anywhere else I’ve seen on Lemmy, it’s quite calming.
As for the idea of a troika leading the USSR, it would not have changed that much. The USSR was collectively run, it wasn’t a monarchy.
are there any alternatives to the term “tankie”? maybe ‘marxinist’ (a combination of ‘marx’ and ‘leninist’), perhaps?
aes?
i see hexbear as more of a hardline communist-type instance; whenever i tell people that i’m left-libertarian, sometimes i get comments saying that left-libertarianism is a contradiction, when really it’s a bit different than right-libertarianism. i also get called a ‘shitlib’ by some for my socialist views (market socialist, welfarist, minarchist, georgist, multi-party politics under the socialist spectrum, dual party-union power - that can technically interpreted as democratic socialism in some way).
i DIDN’T even realize that what i said is technically “imperialist dogma”, and i apologize for that. it’s just that i’m learning, and i’m looking for resources on marxism and such.
where’s the “news megathread”, and what about the “general site”?
i signed up for lemmygrad.ml - it’s okay.
i understand that the ussr is decentralized, but the general secretary of the communist party of the ussr is pretty much the leader in general. i do think that there should’ve been multiple political parties (in the socialist spectrum) in the soviet government. seriously!
Just say communist, Marxist, etc. You don’t need to use a pejorative.
Actually Existing Socialism. Countries like the former USSR, PRC, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, etc.
You have a contradictory hodge-podge of random ideologies thrown together. You need to focus less on describing what you think is good, and do more study and research before thinking you have the solutions. There’s a reason not a single party on Earth conforms to your positions even slightly.
A helpful way to avoid parroting dogma is to just not speak on a subject until you’ve investigated it thoroughly, or otherwise can make an educated guess based on prior study.
The News Mega is pinned on the site, hexbear.net. The general site is just Hexbear.net
Lemmygrad is almost entirely Marxist-Leninists. You can do a good deal of learning there, but you’ll probably find it even more ideologically consistent than Hexbear.
Having a leader does not mean that leader touches everything under them, they just steer general policy. The USSR was run democratically. Having multiple competing political parties is a liberal notion of democracy that breaks up consensus building and devolves into factionalism. It’s useful for maintaining capitalism, but terrible for running a democratic country while under siege.
I don’t see the advantage of saying “Marxinist.”
Sure, the point is to not demonize or slander AES.
The LeftValues test is just a guess at what you are, not a description or perscription. All socialism is democratic.
Videos generally aren’t going to get you where you need to be with theory.
Socialist democracy tends to focus on unity over competing partied trying to undermine each other, which is why most socialist states are unitary. In the context of imperialist siege, competition becomes a vector for destabilization.
I still don’t see the advantage of “Marxinist.” Just say communist.
One-party states are fine if the party is representative of the working classes, serves the people, and does a good job.
Audiobooks are good, I don’t use them but others swear by them.
The idea of competing types of socialist parties in a liberal structure doesn’t work in practice. These are fundamentally different systems both from each other and from liberal systems.
Federations can be socialist, there’s a difference between segmentation and competition.
can you explain how there are multiple political parties in a coalition in some aes countries?
ie: china has minor parties that run with the ruling party, working under a ‘united front’ - they call these parties ‘democratic parties’:
the dprk meanwhile has a few parties in the now-defunct ‘united democratic fatherland front’ coalition (dissolved back in 2024 because kim jong-un changed his mind on korean reunification):
China has a cooperative party system with the CPC being the main governing body. It’s different from a liberal system, and further these extra parties are more like interest groups. Their focus is on unity, not on competing with the CPC.
As for the DPRK, it pretty much has full WPK control. The other parties aren’t genuinely competing with the WPK, more trying to tilt it in a different direction.
No socialist country really has these intense liberal elections with competing interests.