On this day in 1953, the Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état, was executed. It was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953.
It was orchestrated by the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project or "Operation Ajax") and the United Kingdom (under the name "Operation Boot").
Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now part of BP) and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves. Upon the AIOC's refusal to co-operate with the Iranian government, the parliament (Majlis) voted to nationalize Iran's oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country. Judging Mosaddegh to be unreliable and fearing a Communist takeover in Iran, UK prime minister Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration decided to overthrow Iran's government.
Between 200 and 300 people were killed because of the conflict. Mosaddegh was arrested, tried and convicted of treason by the Shah's military court. On 21 December 1953, he was sentenced to three years in jail, then placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life. Other Mosaddegh supporters were imprisoned, and several received the death penalty. After the coup, the Shah continued his rule as monarch for the next 26 years until he was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
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CMV: At this point, whenever you hear "tankie" you can just mentally substitute "pinko commie."
That's literally all it means. Anyone who is still unironically calling people tankies is just a reactionary
there are a lot of anarchists who I know in their heart are comrades who use the term as some kind of dunk. but they're just feeding the reactionaries, and parroting anti communist bullshit.
you're not fighting against 'authoritarian' socialism when you punch left like that, you're fighting for liberal anti communism that wants us all dead
I feel exactly the same way as someone who doesn't really lean one way or the other for anarchism/MLism since I think both theories have great analyses. For some reason it's very popular right now among online socialists to be one of the good ones and say "I'm not like other leftists! I don't support x and y and z :)" without realizing how counter productive that kind of criticism becomes. If your ideology is just defined in terms of negatives because you oppose capitalism but you also oppose any alternative to it that has actually been implemented, then you're only helping the status quo and you aren't proposing any solution to it. And I'm aware that many of the people who do this are self described anarchists but I don't think it's fair to call them out specifically, there have actually been anarchist projects in history even if they weren't as prominent. My problem is with those who only ever criticize without pointing to a realistic solution.
It's not just anarchists (and I'm not even pointing the finger at them specifically). It has entered mainstream discourse to disparage anyone to the left of Mayo Pete
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Hard disagree. People using these terms has IRL consequences. "Authoritarianism" is a great example of this. How many people are still staunchly convinced to this day that Stalin and Hitler were equivalent because they are both "authoritarians"?
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