That’s that original definition of Left and Right as political terms, the one Marx eventually worked from.
The Left was always pro democracy, and the Right pro monarchy.
Marx and Engels came to communism through the rise of European democracy.
Lenin came to power via coup and secret police arresting and murdering the Socialist Revolutionaries.
Tankies worship Lenin and his “vanguard parties” which are just dictatorships, a new Nobility. Leaving the workers just as oppressed as before.
Actual communism is the workers in control of the factories and economy, and the only way to manage that is via a functional democracy. Something that capitalists and fake communists fight against tooth and nail.
Tankies are far right.
That’s that original definition of Left and Right as political terms, the one Marx eventually worked from.
The Left was always pro democracy, and the Right pro monarchy.
Marx and Engels came to communism through the rise of European democracy.
Lenin came to power via coup and secret police arresting and murdering the Socialist Revolutionaries.
Tankies worship Lenin and his “vanguard parties” which are just dictatorships, a new Nobility. Leaving the workers just as oppressed as before.
Actual communism is the workers in control of the factories and economy, and the only way to manage that is via a functional democracy. Something that capitalists and fake communists fight against tooth and nail.