• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      30
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Okay, you’ve described communism as a theoretical state that we as socialist want to arrive at as we resolve the contridictions within society.

      How is this different than what people like me that you call tankies are talking about. What fo you know that we don’t?

      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        How is this different than what people like me that you call tankies are talking about. What of you know that we don’t?

        The difference is the support of oligarchic (not communist) Russia in the war against Ukraine, as a lot of hexbear users are advocating.

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          34
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Forget about Ukraine for a minute. I want you to explain to me your theory of democratic communism. What’s the theory of change? What does a democratic comminist revolutuon look like? Is there a theoretical basis for these beliefs?

          I’m a marxist leninist, i am someone you would call a tankie. I want you to explain to me you’re version of communism

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          A) What makes you think we think the Russian Federation is “Communist”?

          B) Why do you not also describe Ukraine as an oligarchy when it’s entire reputation for the last 30 years is as one of the most ludicrously corrupt places on Earth?

      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Populist revolt? Nowhere did I say I dont support revolution. But you then need to instate a real democracy

        • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          1 year ago

          And if you instate that “real” democracy in a world that is full of capitalists that will work towards destroying it (as you for example saw with the USSR in its infancy or Nicaragua or Cuba), how do you think your newfound democracy should defend itself?