I mean, they provided a tank and guns for security.

Only a few names have been confirmed among the deceased, including 20-year-old Nathanel Young, who had been a serving solider with the Israeli Defence Forces.

Hamas is not related to ISIS.

As the U$ fueled the rise of ISIS it’s not too surprising that they incorporated tactics from the U$ School for the Americas.

IDF says.

And kicking residents out to make those areas, right?

To be clear, from your post history, your positions are:

• Ukrainian Nazis are right to fight Russia.

• There’s no excuse for Hamas.

Is that accurate?

I’ve never been trying to hide behind a mask, just like the Zionist entity has never tried to hide that it primarily targets civilians.

You know as well as I do that a de-militarized Israel would very rapidly no longer exist.

Yes

I think it’s important to keep in mind that the Zionist entity is completely capable - at any moment - of surrendering, releasing all hostages, de-militarizing, and vowing to never again attempt to kill civilians.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive

Hamas is a Palestinian group that is fighting them, which is why the anti-Israel folks will often support that.

Hamas also came into being because of Israel supporting it over secular (communist) resistance groups.

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

Here, let’s do a litmus test. Who is to blame for the Ukraine War? Would you decry the US if they falsely claimed to own most of the Gulf of Mexico and threatened civilian ships? If so, would you also decry China for claiming most of the South China Sea, including waters which are literally closer to other countries than to them?

I get that it’s a convenient rhetorical technique to try to turn the conversation onto the views common among communists that you find objectionable. I don’t agree that it’s relevant to the conversation at hand, though.

Every communist is not a tankie.

The thread of “authoritarian” communism that’s typically branded as “tankie” runs directly to Marx. I’m interested to know if you’re able to find any non-marxist communist tendencies to hold up as an example.

Where are your model communists? Or are you just anti-communist?

I don’t really agree. Stalin’s thoughts can be summed up in his synthesis of Marx and Lenin. There isn’t a “Stalinism” separate from Marxism-leninism, but his contribution to MLism was vital.

I also don’t really agree that Dengism is a thing. It’s a convenient shorthand Maoists use to describe modern China, but I don’t think Deng saw his contributions as separate from SWCC.

Also also, I don’t think you can fairly characterize modern Maoism as Mao’s interpretation of MLism.

All of these are very pedantic, so it’s very much ok if we don’t agree here! 😁

The “Communist Manifesto” was written by the guy who said “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”

A non-marxist who just wanted a commune would be something like a Utopian Communalist, or something like that.

It’s just a pejorative for Marxist-leninists/communists/“authoritarian communists”.

The lemmy platform was built by communists, and there’s a couple of active instances of communists on lemmy.

Marxism-leninism was first synthesized by Stalin. Stalinism isn’t a thing, but Stalin was a Marxist-leninist. Stalin was a Communist. Marx was an authoritarian communist as well.

“tankie” is just a red-scare pejorative for communists.

That wasn’t the comment you left though, was it?

No, he just failed to account for people.

What do you mean by this?

Marx is more hard-line than Stalin.

If they’re both “tankies”, then I think we’re clear that the term is just base red-scare anti-communism.

Edit: “sealioning is when I have to defend arguments I’ve repeated but don’t actually understand”

Was Marx a tankie?

“Tankie” is just a pejorative that anti-communists use for Marxism-leninists.

The developers of lemmy are Marxist-leninist communists.