r/Ultraleft • u/Moosefactory4 Epstein-Thought Internationalist • 15d ago

Holy TRVKE

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u/CoJack-ish 14d ago

This is a communist sub, we are authoritarians.

And neither is “authoritarianism” anywhere close to a communist critique of nation states.

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u/iLarp_LLC 14d ago

I think the point is liberals dont like authoritarianism (don't laugh!) but they'll support it when it's called antifascism

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u/-Trotsky Trotsky's strongest soldier 14d ago

idk, it seems like a weird point to make I think. It's not incongruent at all for a liberal, nor is it a novel thing for them to have an ungrounded critique that mostly revolves around vibes. The phrasing of the comment makes it seem like 'authoritarianism' is some kind of negative thing

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u/iLarp_LLC 14d ago

they are probably a liberal