right, but have you considered that (targeted!) terrorism works?
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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
Normally, I think killing a CEO will cause no good because they’re so replaceable, but I could make an exception and celebrate Sam’s death.
At least until I have to look at 500 Tankie posts trying to convince western teens and facebook uncles to worship him.
jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
No. Not one single time have I ever considered that.
Perhaps if it were a resistance to a fascist regime, but CEOs aren’t a fascist regime they’re just players in the game that voters have created.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I don’t think it’s tankies doing that.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
It’s not only Tankies but I’d wager it’s a majority Tankies. Anything to promote western violence and the loss of engagement in the political process.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Tankie here. Marxists-Leninist don’t condone stochastic violent acts during capitalism against Capitalists, the word we use to refer to such tactics is “adventurism”, and it’s criticized heavily.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 day ago
He’s telling the truth for once. MLs don’t believe that workers should have agency over their lives or the revolution. They’re very much a top down belief system hence the “Tankie” part: ie enforcing political orthodoxy with the threat of violence against the workers.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 1 day ago
They only condone violence against capitalists if leadership ordered them to
No. We just believe that adventurism isn’t a good tactic in bourgeois dictatorship, and we distinguish it from repression of capitalists by the dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e. by the state democratically representing the workers in power.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
Then you don’t support Russia, the China, or North Korea and you’re not a tankie, or you do support those entities and you’re lying about their activities, in either scenario that’s bullshit.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 day ago
You’re not wrong that they support those countries but you haven’t explained how that’s pertinent to the topic at hand.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
Because China, Russia, and North Korea run psyops that either directly or indirectly harm western nations, such as by endorsing people who oppose or disadvantage the governments and peoples in those nations in any way and by doing anything in their power to decrease credibility and trust of those nation’s governments.
Examples: China used it’s TikTok military op not only to collect and categorize americans (and other nations) but to directly endorse Donald Trump for president, followed by the largest shift rightward in young voters ever recorded. China wants Anarchy in the west, China wants an opportunity to grow their own borders unchecked and become the dominant global superpower.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 1 day ago
What do Russia, China or the DPRK have to do with stochastic acts of violence against capitalists?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
If you’re a Tankie
You support Russia, China, and The Dictatorship of North Korea.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 day ago
Disagree because they would behave differently if there was consequences
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
Like when Brian Thompson was killed and his vice president took over the reigns within the hour? Like when they continued denying claims at record rates using AI? Fact of the matter is, somebody got rich off that guy dying, these sort of events won’t make the rich less greedy, it will enable and embolden them so that only the most violent rise to the top.