Had a heated argument with a tankie who glorified stalin and lenin. So fucking tired. The worst thing he’s a discord mod of a good streamer, and i left the server because i can’t be there anymore. Context: i’m russian whose grand-grandparents were repressed and forcibly relocated. Left Russia several years ago because i didn’t want to support the aggressive war in Ukraine. And his american (no offense to amreicans tho) ass tried to explain me that stalin is an actual hero who singlehandedly saved Europe from fascism, and all repressed were rich “bourgeois land owners” (actually, no. but even if yes, that’s a terrorism). Then he and other user started posting stupid tankie memes. Ofc they ignored my questions how LGBT+, religious groups and small nations were treated and deleted the message. I’m sick of that shit. Needed to vent somewhere.
Same reaction from tankies btw
at least i know to study history AND theory, and know that those theories are just privileged academics studying what marginalized people have been doing to resist all along, and that if you deify a theorist, you are no longer practicing a social cause, you have created a religion…
Graeber once said that it’s possible to study Marxism on a university level and do it all in an armchair level while anarchist academics (himself included) will engage in some level of action.
That said, there totally are selfaware armchair anarchists. “Anarchism explained to my father” is written by one (great book btw)