My two cents on how to achieve left unity:
Anarchists: Stop using the word tankie. It pushes your fellow leftists away and pisses them off. Instead make specific criticisms of communist countries. ESPECIALLY stop calling MLs “red fash”. There is already enough misinformation going around about fascism.
Marxist-Leninists: Embrace critical support. Be willing to criticize and accept criticism of nations like China, the Soviet Union, and especially North Korea. Remember that being against US imperialism is not the only thing that makes a country good.
Yeah. People make dumb, hyperbolic points about China all the time.
But people also make much more measured and reasonable points, and those points get blown up and treated as though they were the same as the hyperbolic bullshit.
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Chapo Chat, like /r/cth, is an enemy of dirtbag leftists
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I don't really disagree with your actual claims, but your original comment is an example of what I was talking about. All the post said was, "xyz countries can be criticized" and you escalated that by treating it as though you were being asked to accept everything the BBC has to say about foreign policy.
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Sure, but from the text of the post and from your description of what you already believe, you're not being asked to change your ideology.
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That's fair enough, but a better response would be to point that out instead of the knee jerk response of assuming the asker is being disingenuous. We all have the same goals here.
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If you're interested in people understanding you and knowing what you mean, you'd best say what you mean instead of saying the opposite for "snark" purposes.