• SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Nah.

    Communists are social democrats who just haven’t heard of social democracy.

    Tankies are authoritarians who just like to masquerade under a less edgy ideology, communism in this case.

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      If it’s like in my country, tankie will be used to qualify people just slightly left of hardcore liberalism…

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          France. We don’t use the word tankie. But the government is calling the social-democrat parties extreme left (often adding dangerous), and often talk about them like equal or worse than the extreme right racist (bordering fascist) party.

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        I do. But I find the concept of just “socialism” a bit boring to talk about, due to obvious reasons

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          If you think any flavour of socialist “just hasn’t discovered social democracy”, then no, you don’t know what socialism is. Any socialist already knows about it, and probably believed in it once, but moved past it after learning that it’s insufficient.

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            Uh, I think you dont know what socialism is. Read up on it. This comment tree is not about it anyway so please start another one if you want to discuss socialism. Or at least make sure you

            A: let everyone know youre going OT

            B: know what you are talking about.

            Thank you

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              WTF exactly do you think socialism is, if you think it’s off topic?

              You mentioned tankies. Tankie is a pejorative for Marxism-Leninism, a form of socialism.

              You mentioned communism. Communism is a form of socialism.

              You mentioned social democracy - a concept many ignorant people confuse with socialism.

              You also intimated that MLs simply “haven’t discovered social democracy” - a statement that can only be said by someone who thinks social democracy is “socialism done right”.

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                You also intimated that MLs simply “haven’t discovered social democracy”

                This is especially completely hilarious for anyone actually reading even a wiki page and knowing that the the most historically important M-L party, CPSU, was originally named literally Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and that all marxists called themselves social-democrats for a decades, until the bulk of them betrayed the working class and supported imperialism in WW1.

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                Fascinating how the guys most enthusiastic about communism and socialism have the least clue on what it is. Please, educate yourself, they are quite simple ideas, which is why they are the ideology of the uneducated and violent

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        Uh the nation of Finland with its tiny itsy bitsy army would like to have a word.

        Or Sweden, renowned for its centuries old tradition of US-dependency, especially their reliability on air assets to upkeep sovereignty.

        Simple as.

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            If you have any knowledge at all from the countries in question or the world in general, you would’ve understood the sarcasm. Now you just prove you have no idea what you are talking about.

            Finland has a massive army and Sweden is renowned for its air power. These are not secrets, but well-known facts that even slightly educational people know. Unlike you.

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              Dude it’s an alliance of western powers. No matter how proud the Nords are of their armies, they are ultimately dependent on the military and financial domination of the US.

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                  Let’s see literally any one of those countries try to go socialist and see how long it takes for the US to invade and coup them.

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                Finland has been in an alliance for less than a year. Sweden hasn’t been in an alliance in centuries.

                Do people actually talk this enthusiastically on subjects they have no knowledge of? Scary, but explains a lot

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            I think I’m being trolled here but if you actually don’t know about the concepts of finlandization or Sweden’s neutrality I have no clue how you can keep a straight face lying

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                You are saying Finland and Sweden had no deterrence during their respective times of neutrality.

                And social democracy is when US spends money on military? Yo what?