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- Original comment that was deleted with reason of “Tankie apologia”.
- When another user comments has suspicions of mods actions, Mod replies with this.
- Poster replies in exasperation explaining perspective, rationale, and offline experiences. Comment gets deleted and purged.
Explanation
The original comment I made was stating that alienation of someone by frustrating their political beliefs is not a way to convince them of anything.
That being their genuine friend goes a long way in helping someone rather then attacking them.
That together they both can work together for a better future.
That you can be annoyed, but that should be swallowed because that is what it means to be part of a community.
You will always be annoyed one way or another in a community, that is the beauty of a community, that there are different people that may annoy you slightly, but working together to still be a community.
The moderator disagrees with this, viewing it as “tankie apologia”.
When I replied, explaining why I made my post and my background, My post was removed and I was banned from the community.
Thank you @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com for reminding me on this missing context: https://lemmy.ml/comment/17251624
In my reply post, I wrote that “advocating for war on any country is not political flavoring”.
That cannot be swallowed, and one should not befriend such a person without sufficient care for ones own wellbeing.
I had wrote explicitly thinking of people who suport Russia against Ukraine, Israel over Palestine, and Assadists etc.
My purged comment also states that “people seeking to punish / attack LGBTQIA+ people is not political flavoring”.
I whole heartingly believe trans rights are human rights.
Free HRT and gender affirming care for all!
To remove an otherwise popular comment advocating for support what I feel are healthy behaviors, then name call someone as a “authoritarian” and a “tankie apologist” is disingenuous and corrupt to me.
Remedy
Personally I would like my comments restored so at least others see a different way of looking at things. I have no qualms with remaining banned.
Perhaps I should have not commented in reply to the mod, but they had already removed my post and I had little to lose.
Otherwise, I am very tired of this on the internet, I am tired of tribalism and the lack of empathy in this world.
What do you all think, should I have even made my original comment if I already knew it would be fruitless?
Or, hear me out here, that Engels was just fractally wrong .
Lol
So you’re saying he wasn’t really a communist then.
I’m saying he was stupid wrong about what “authority” is.
As I said, your opinion is irrelevant, the only thing that matters is that the work shows his position, and that he was, indisputably, a communist.
That doesn’t matter at all
If you agree that Engles was an an authoritarian and a communist, then you agree that someone can be both an authoritarian and a communist, and the claim that authoritarians can’t be communists must be false
It’s so funny to me that people will downvote logic as straightforward as “All men are moral, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is a mortal” as if simply disliking logic makes it not true.
Whether Engels considered himself a communist is irrelevant (he was of course an authoritarian as a factory owner hypocrite) to whether “on authority” is a good essay.
Your arguments make no sense. “did Lenin consider himself communist? Aha but he was authoritarian too. Checkmate liberal!” just inane bullshit.
In any case, what MLs call “communism” and what anarchists do is something completely different, which is why “left unity” is bullshit as well.
I didn’t ask if Engles considered himself a communist. I asked if he was a communist. Again, it’s a very simple and straightforward line of logic.
Logical maturation won’t get you out of this pickle. The op’s point was that it doesn’t matter what you call yourself, in practice those two terms, as anarchists define them, are incompatible.