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- Original comment that was deleted with reason of “Tankie apologia”.
- When another user comments has suspicions of mods actions, Mod replies with this.
- Poster replies in exasperation explaining perspective, rationale, and offline experiences. Comment gets deleted and purged.
Explanation
The original comment I made was stating that alienation of someone by frustrating their political beliefs is not a way to convince them of anything.
That being their genuine friend goes a long way in helping someone rather then attacking them.
That together they both can work together for a better future.
That you can be annoyed, but that should be swallowed because that is what it means to be part of a community.
You will always be annoyed one way or another in a community, that is the beauty of a community, that there are different people that may annoy you slightly, but working together to still be a community.
The moderator disagrees with this, viewing it as “tankie apologia”.
When I replied, explaining why I made my post and my background, My post was removed and I was banned from the community.
Thank you @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com for reminding me on this missing context: https://lemmy.ml/comment/17251624
In my reply post, I wrote that “advocating for war on any country is not political flavoring”.
That cannot be swallowed, and one should not befriend such a person without sufficient care for ones own wellbeing.
I had wrote explicitly thinking of people who suport Russia against Ukraine, Israel over Palestine, and Assadists etc.
My purged comment also states that “people seeking to punish / attack LGBTQIA+ people is not political flavoring”.
I whole heartingly believe trans rights are human rights.
Free HRT and gender affirming care for all!
To remove an otherwise popular comment advocating for support what I feel are healthy behaviors, then name call someone as a “authoritarian” and a “tankie apologist” is disingenuous and corrupt to me.
Remedy
Personally I would like my comments restored so at least others see a different way of looking at things. I have no qualms with remaining banned.
Perhaps I should have not commented in reply to the mod, but they had already removed my post and I had little to lose.
Otherwise, I am very tired of this on the internet, I am tired of tribalism and the lack of empathy in this world.
What do you all think, should I have even made my original comment if I already knew it would be fruitless?
I support direct action, unionization, and revolution, I just don’t also support states that suppress unions, like you do. Improving society somewhat doesn’t look like implementing a military dictatorship.
You can’t support hierarchical dictatorships that take away the rights of workers and call yourself a communist, leftist, etc. etc. You are an authoritarian even now with no power.
so you support every revolution except for the successful ones?
life is not a map painting game
Two questions:
Were Marx and Engles communists?
Have you read “On Authority” by Engles?
On authority : notoriously the worst Marxist essay ever written.
What you think of it is irrelevant. What’s relevant is that it plainly demonstrates the author’s perspective on this issue. Meaning that anyone who claims “You can’t call yourself a communist if you’re an authoritarian” has to either make the absurd claim that Engles wasn’t a communist or pretend the essay doesn’t exist.
Of course, On Authority is just the shortest and most to the point work demonstrating the view in a way that is completely impossible to deny. If you (God forbid) read Lenin (particularly The State and Revolution), he cites Marx extensively to defend his position and refute the idea that Marx didn’t support the use of “authoritarian” state power.
What’s funny to me is that for all the time Lenin spent refuting these ideas in his time, the people saying them today don’t actually read any of the people whose intellectual tradition they’re inheriting. The modern day Kautskist won’t read Lenin, but they certainly won’t read Kautsky. There’s no theory to even be critiqued really, it’s just memes, streamers, and recycled propaganda lines.
Or, hear me out here, that Engels was just fractally wrong .
Lol
So you’re saying he wasn’t really a communist then.
I’m saying he was stupid wrong about what “authority” is.
As I said, your opinion is irrelevant, the only thing that matters is that the work shows his position, and that he was, indisputably, a communist.
That doesn’t matter at all