There’s nothing fascist in the 16 demands, and drag’s search for evidence of this chalk thing turned up nothing with the word “chalk” in it -

Drag didn’t accuse anyone in the picture of being a tankie. Drag thought the image was relevant to the discussion. As you can see in this thread, users of this community are defending the use of tanks to suppress the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Drag thought that tankies might like to comment on your meme, and called them tankies. And as everyone can see, drag was right.

If they were capitalists, why didn’t the demands of the student protesters say anything about capitalism? If the USSR allowed workers the right to strike, why were the students demanding it?

Source?

https://reddit.com/r/DebateAnarchism/comments/xfzvrx/karl_marx_was_not_just_an_anarchist_he_was_one_of/

Please judge this source by the content of the writing and the sourcing of its own arguments rather than by the hosting medium.

One of the biggest and most dangerous mistakes made by Communists is the idea that a revolution can be made by revolutionaries alone. On the contrary, to be successful, all serious revolutionary work requires that the idea that revolutionaries are capable of playing the part only of the vanguard of the truly virile and advanced class must be understood and translated into action.

- Lenin, 1922

It probably means they read Lenin and liked his ideas a lot better than Stalin’s nonsense. Now, you were explaining how tankies oppose minimum wage and the right to strike?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demands_of_Hungarian_Revolutionaries_of_1956

We demand general elections by universal, secret ballot are held throughout the country to elect a new National Assembly, with all political parties participating. We demand that the right of workers to strike be recognised.

We demand complete revision of the norms operating in industry and an immediate and radical adjustment of salaries in accordance with the just requirements of workers and intellectuals. We demand a minimum living wage for workers.

So you’re saying the revolution demanding minimum wage and the right to strike wasn’t a worker’s revolution? Are all tankies this right-wing or just you?

The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

The term was literally created by Marxist-Leninists to insult the kind of person who wants to use tanks to suppress a worker’s revolution. Tankies aren’t communists. They’re counterrevolutionaries who want to stop all progress made towards dissolving the state as Marx said.

Exactly! Marxists, anarchists, and leninists are alllies. Statist liberals on the other hand, whether they be social democratic corporate capitalists or stalinistic state capitalists, will always try to infiltrate and divide the communist movement.

It’s just like this motte-and-bailey meme. The implied position is that the communists were wrong to tell the Americans to vote against fascism. The strong position, which is claimed to be the only position when it meets resistance, is that it’s only against capitalist liberals.

Marxists are great people. Leninists have fantastic ideas. And Marxist-Leninists betray everything Marx and Lenin stood for.

“Socialism in one country” is the invention of a bourgeois dictator who sought to destroy communism because it was a threat to his power.

Karl Marx died an anarchist.

Well you see, catgirls are bourgeois decadence /s

China isn’t communist and America isn’t democratic. They both suck way worse than that.

There will be peace when we have killed enough Nazis.

AI is bad!

We don’t need to use all this water and energy just to avoid having to click on news articles.

Nazis.

Drag values not being a Nazi and X doesn’t. This isn’t a dumb reason to stop using it.

It’s really awful when someone follows you over tons of communities replying to you because they didn’t like one of your posts. Drag is very sorry you had to go through that.

That’s good parenting

Yeah, trying to expose a Lemmy user’s IRL identity is a huge taboo in the community