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Very compelling, but have you considered
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No, it's used to refer a wide, vague blob of vibes, just like the word woke. The people who use it can can do use it to refer to all kinds of communists, most anarchists, and anything to the left of Elizabeth Warren in general.
As opposed to the kind of communism where you ask nicely for revolution? Have you actually read any Marx? I guarantee he was not a pacifist.
By your own definition you cannot, let alone by a definition of tankie that describes how libs actually use it.
You deliberately misquoted me by cutting off the end of that sentence so you could have a nice soft strawman to swing at. The full sentence said
Forceful revolution by the workers against the capitalist class is a completely different matter from forceful repression of dissent by the state against students and professors.
That doesn't change the context at all. Dissent from the capitalist class is still dissent.
Lol okay, sure, yeah. Only the capitalist class. Got it.
"Marxism is when you capitulate to revolts from a small part of the population, with no concern for protecting the project that the majority supports"