• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Oh you're right! I forgot about them! They always got caught up arguing from the standpoint of "optics" and "movement building" but only when it came to using the word cracker and quoting Stalin's objectively correct quote about social democracy

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        2 months ago

        I'd been trying to remember where I remembered user MarxMadness from...

        They always got caught up arguing from the standpoint of "optics" and "movement building" but

        ...oh right, the DNC discourse, running more apologetics for "protest marshals" facilitating cops' jobs.

    • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Oddly enough people with “Marx” in their usernames tend to be this sort of chauvinist social-democrat tendency. It’s like they know they have lib tendencies and try to preempt it by putting the one unquestionable communist in their name to shield themselves

      • Jelamzer@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        This pathetic optic shit never works i dont know why these radlibs are obsessed with it.

        • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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          2 months ago

          When shit hits the fan people will grant legitimacy and favor to whoever is actually getting their hands dirty and who clearly want to win by any means.

          The Bolsheviks were robbing trains and kidnapping politicians. When shit hit the fan everyone flocked to them, not the liberal optics Mensheviks and other socialist parties.

          If the Bolsheviks had caved and listened to these so-called “Marxists” then they would just be another delegitimized neutered party like the rest. To the extent they cared about “optics” and PR, they made it clear they were fully in opposition to all bourgeois parties of the state and highlighted their differences.

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        2 months ago

        Oddly enough people with “Marx” in their usernames tend to be this sort of chauvinist social-democrat tendency

        I hear ya, I can't stand those ultra losers

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          2 months ago

          All the social chauvinists are now "Marxists" (don't laugh!)