• MattsAlt [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        the symbol has been used in many different contexts by a variety of anti-fascist, social democratic and democratic socialist organisations

        I’m asking what you, specifically, mean by “authoritarian”

          • MattsAlt [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            Jesus Christ that is a wall of unhinged screeds against muh red fash tankies with absolutely no analysis, just “here’s something the makes me mad, watch me react to it with terminally online vocabulary”. Theory implies I’ll learn something from critical analysis, not a glimpse into the mind of a madman. What you linked is some weird manifesto about how you’d rather die under the boot of capitalism than ever work with others who have similar ideas of what is important but different ideas on how to reach them. Shows how serious you are about accomplishing those goals as some comfortable global north netizen posting their way to freedom apparently.

            No wonder you can’t define what you mean by authoritarian, I don’t think you know.

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              Once the transition to their new religion is complete, almost immediately, any ideas that conflict with the writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Deng and Xi (never mind that they all contradict with each other) create desperate cognitive dissonance in their minds. So these pasty emotionally-stunted people angrily lash out at the unindoctrinated for being “radlibs”, “western chauvinists” and “imperialists” rather than risk parting with their new-found identity, community and belonging.

              Once the majority in the newly minted left-unity community are comfortable joking about rounding up and killing “kulaks”, “anarchist bandits” or more recently “Uighur terrorists” and quoting Chinese state media to counter all the “imperialist western propaganda” from the mouths of the various minority groups being imprisoned and enslaved by the Chinese state (for their own good, they’ll insist), the shaming campaign begins.

              Anyone in the space who breaks with the red fash party line is lambasted and ridiculed into submission. The remaining libertarians in the space now find themselves hopelessly outnumbered by scornful white settlers with daddy issues telling them they’re imperialist CIA stooges for thinking the Uighurs maybe shouldn’t be put in concentration camps or the Hong Kong and Tibetan people should get self-determination (watch tankies insist Tibetans who don’t want to be ruled by China are fascists and China is, in fact, saving them from themselves).

              What part of this do you not understand?