Lhamat@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIs everyone here leftist?message-squaremessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIs everyone here leftist?Lhamat@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoYou’re thinking of ML tankies. Communism is a stateless, classless, system where people enact mutualism and socialism without state coercion.
minus-squareHugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoWhat makes this thing you’re describing, not anarchism? I think you’re thinking of anarchocommunism specifically. Which is “not all communism”™. State-based communism is a thing, that many people usually called tankies by others, do believe in.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThe difference between non-ML tankie communism and anarchism is the means of getting there. Communists want a vanguard state to slowly whittle away. Anarchists want to skip that step.
You’re thinking of ML tankies.
Communism is a stateless, classless, system where people enact mutualism and socialism without state coercion.
What makes this thing you’re describing, not anarchism?
I think you’re thinking of anarchocommunism specifically. Which is “not all communism”™.
State-based communism is a thing, that many people usually called tankies by others, do believe in.
The difference between non-ML tankie communism and anarchism is the means of getting there.
Communists want a vanguard state to slowly whittle away.
Anarchists want to skip that step.