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-8 points

4 months ago

Defending a revolution is not accelerationism. I have no idea how you got that from what they said, or generally where this idea of tankies being accelerationists comes from, it seems to be mostly something people make up about us. Accelerationism is stupid and reactionary.

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davidagain@lemmy.world

8 points

4 months ago

Accelerationism is stupid and reactionary

So is Donald Trump.

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-6 points

4 months ago

Yes, he is. Not sure what that has to do with the incorrect claim that tankies are accelerationists.

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davidagain@lemmy.world

6 points

4 months ago

Most tankies on lemmy spend a lot of time arguing for people to do things that lead to Trump bringing much of fascism to America. Not sure if you’d noticed.

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-4 points

4 months ago

I haven’t noticed any tankies supporting Trump, no.

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davidagain@lemmy.world

6 points

4 months ago

Oh, weird. In my feed, they’re always trying to convince left leaning folk not to vote for Biden so that Trump wins.

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0 points

4 months ago

Yes, we do believe in participating in bourgeois elections in the form of our own party, the reasons for which were laid out by Lenin ages ago. It has nothing to do with the modern concept of “accelerationism,” or wanting Trump to win. If I were an accelerationist, I’d be spoiled for choice, conditions will continue to decline under either candidate. Unfortunately, accelerationism doesn’t work, and declining conditions are the reason we got Trump in the first place.

In a race between Trump and a person who created the conditions that make people like Trump inevitable, I support neither, instead, I support a position of fixing the conditions that led to Trump’s emergence, which is the only possible strategy of stopping facism in the long run.

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