There is actually technically no such thing as an authoritarian leftist. Leftism is defined as more egalitarian/less hierarchical. Tankies are right wingers that have been pushed into the same spaces as leftists because they are against Western nationalism.
“Tankie” is just a pejorative for those who support socialism in the real world. It’s a caricature, the “tankie” is someone that believes everything levied against socialist states by the west is both true and good. In reality, many groups and figures like the Black Panther Party, Nelson Mandela, etc are supportive of socialist states, and are thus the same “tankies” demonized by anti-communists.
Economies where public ownwership is the principle aspect of the economy and where the working classes are in control of the state are neither fascist nor capitalist.
So you’re saying that the working class Chinese citizens have direct, official power over the means of production and can use that to further the political goals of the working class with no repercussions?
Yes, the CPC is a working class party with a hair over 100 million members, and the system of democracy in China is distributed into local, regional, and the central government.
Oh, the government is separated into smaller local and regional governments and less than 10% of all Chinese citizens (there are 1.4 billion) are members of the CCP? Cool fun facts, I always love to learn, but you did not answer my question.
Does the government of the People’s Republic of China support and protect the legal right of the working class to control the means of production?
Public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, and the working class is in control of the state. These are the basic requirements for socialism, at least in the Marxist understanding. I’m not sure what exactly you are referring to, a petite bourgeois cooperative quasi-socialism? If the working class directing the economy, as I already explained is the case in China, isn’t “controlling the means of production,” what exactly is your vision here? Because it certainly isn’t standard.
Highly authoritarian leftists
There is actually technically no such thing as an authoritarian leftist. Leftism is defined as more egalitarian/less hierarchical. Tankies are right wingers that have been pushed into the same spaces as leftists because they are against Western nationalism.
Authoritarian anti-capitalist then
“Tankie” is just a pejorative for those who support socialism in the real world. It’s a caricature, the “tankie” is someone that believes everything levied against socialist states by the west is both true and good. In reality, many groups and figures like the Black Panther Party, Nelson Mandela, etc are supportive of socialist states, and are thus the same “tankies” demonized by anti-communists.
I don’t care what you call it, I’m not supporting fascist state capitalism.
Economies where public ownwership is the principle aspect of the economy and where the working classes are in control of the state are neither fascist nor capitalist.
So you’re saying that the working class Chinese citizens have direct, official power over the means of production and can use that to further the political goals of the working class with no repercussions?
Yes, the CPC is a working class party with a hair over 100 million members, and the system of democracy in China is distributed into local, regional, and the central government.
Oh, the government is separated into smaller local and regional governments and less than 10% of all Chinese citizens (there are 1.4 billion) are members of the CCP? Cool fun facts, I always love to learn, but you did not answer my question.
Does the government of the People’s Republic of China support and protect the legal right of the working class to control the means of production?
Public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, and the working class is in control of the state. These are the basic requirements for socialism, at least in the Marxist understanding. I’m not sure what exactly you are referring to, a petite bourgeois cooperative quasi-socialism? If the working class directing the economy, as I already explained is the case in China, isn’t “controlling the means of production,” what exactly is your vision here? Because it certainly isn’t standard.
“ackchually”
I’m giving my POV as a Marxist that disagrees with being labled “right wing” and having Marxism boiled down to “opposing western nationalism.”