The linked definition doesn’t match with you calling the vote/outcome authoritarian.
Authoritarian/authoritarianisn is so widely defined that literally every country, organisation and movement fits it by necessity in class society
Authoritarian is a pejorative used by idiots to avoid grappling with the reality of one class necessarily suppressing another in class society.
Authoritarian is a basically meaningless word already but “people voting for something I don’t like” is an especially idiotic way to define it.
Can you please type out the post word for word then explain exactly which line is telling people to call anyone Nazis.
Then you need to hit the books
Through the fact that they are reactionary, genocide backing, war hungry, imperialist, bourgeoisie owned enemies of the working class who are shifting right as the capitalist crisis deepens, increasing Gestapo funding and suppressing real working class organisation.
I’m sure you would crackkker.
This implies that the democrats aren’t on the fascist side. That is clearly not true. The antifascist side has always been the left wing(communists and anarchists). If you support the “nice fascists” or the “mean fascists” you’re still a fascist.
I have been neutral at worst. Why should I go out of my way to grovel be extra nice to you who has done nothing but spout off arrogantly about things you clearly don’t understand. Also I have pointed out issues and even recommended some reading across my other comments. Grow up.
Ok so you haven’t. You should. Also it’s a bad habit to lie to act like you know more than you do.
Cowbee “have you studied marxism”
You “I have”
???
The PRC was founded and has been led by the CPC for over 70 years. Why hasn’t it become just as bad as the capitalists? Why does anti corruption still reach the highest rungs of power?
It’s almost like a socialist state led by a communist party is qualitatively different to a capitalist one under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Ok. So capitalism observably doesn’t work. And you have decided a proletarian state is impossible. So what is your solution? Is organising futile? Do we just wait for a magic spark of simultaneous global revolution? Do we wait for the world to end? Is it all just futile and we kill ourselves now?
You are very invested in idealist “human nature” metaphysics for someone who allegedly studied Marxism.
There is so much wrong with such a short comment it’s genuinely quite impressive.
You should read:
Lenin’s What Is To Be Done?, The State and Revolution, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
Stalin’s Foundations of Leninism, The Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolution
Chairman Mao’s On Practice and On Contradiction, Serve the People, On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, Combat Liberalism, Oppose Book Worship and 红宝书 (especially chapter 1).
You can also look at modern China and how nearly a billion people were lifted from abject poverty. How the party has over 80% support. How infrastructure and the people are invested in without the need to wring them for profit. The party is neither all powerful nor perfect it is simply the tool through which the people wield their power.
Voting for a genocide backing fascist because they are more personable than the cruel mean fascist rather than doing anything constructive makes you a fascist. The real leftist option is not voting for fascists and then yes ideally overthrowing the capitalist system(sort of a core part of being a leftist).
Looks pretty accurate for those of us outside the imperial core.
I guess the saying holds.
If you can remember what happened over a week ago that makes you a tankie
You’re not “keeping it intact to prevent harm.” You’re keeping it intact because you benefit from it.
The US led system isn’t something you stabilize and then dismantle later. It only exists through massive violence. Every extra year you preserve it is more sanctions, more bombs, more dead people.
And “after Trump” is always the line. It was “after Reagan”, “after Bush,” then “after Trump,” then it will be “after the next Republican.” There is always a new emergency to justify doing nothing to even attempt to slow the immisiration machine.
Nobody else can fix your chauvinism for you. That takes introspection. You need to start considering the rest of us as fully human whose suffering is not secondary to your comfort.
The facts are: Both parties support the imperialist empire. Both fund genocide, sanctions, coups, and proxy wars. Both uphold capitalism and the systematically broken policing system. Both expand surveillance and repression. “Voting blue” has never stopped any of this, it just puts a nicer face on it, the equivalent of sticking a smiling face sticker on the orphan crushing machine.
If you actually want to do something: Stop treating Democrats as harm reduction. Consider third-party or abstention instead of laundering war crimes with your vote. Join a communist organization. Study theory. Do material work in your community. Organize. Build power locally. Arm yourself. Do literally anything other than vote for a war criminal every 2-4 years.
If you want to vote, vote just stop trying to justify yourself as super moral for voting for the personable war criminal over the more openly cruel one.
So all moderation is wrong? Also you seem to very clearly not understand what anarchism is beyond the infantile “tyranny of bedtime” surface.