You know what I hate the most about tankies? They’re so darn similar to liberals. They both have aspirational ideologies that never live up to their virtues, defaulting to geopolitical realism at the drop of a hat. They whole heartedly believe you can only support the least evil of the empires, and that anything else is naive weakness.
Lenin’s ideology was not a scroll of truth, but the marching orders for a more modernized Russian empire. They regularly engaged in systematic genocide, moving their own people around to increase the loyalty supposedly independent states would have to the imperial core. Too bad they didn’t go for absolute destruction of dissent like the Americans did.
Imperialism is the original societal sin, one that predates capitalism by millennia. If anything, capitalism is an outgrowth of that urge; one which tosses life aside in favor of power.
You know what I hate the most about tankies? They’re so darn similar to liberals. They both have aspirational ideologies that never live up to their virtues, defaulting to geopolitical realism at the drop of a hat. They whole heartedly believe you can only support the least evil of the empires, and that anything else is naive weakness.
Lenin’s ideology was not a scroll of truth, but the marching orders for a more modernized Russian empire. They regularly engaged in systematic genocide, moving their own people around to increase the loyalty supposedly independent states would have to the imperial core. Too bad they didn’t go for absolute destruction of dissent like the Americans did.
Imperialism is the original societal sin, one that predates capitalism by millennia. If anything, capitalism is an outgrowth of that urge; one which tosses life aside in favor of power.