And Chomsky admitted that he didn't have much of a hand in writing it either

Genuine question, what is the evidence that he was paid opposition?

cc @bestbouclettes@jlai.lu @Deceptichum@quokk.au

Fair !

Yeah I know about that, but I'm talking about the book itself and the ideas inside

I'm sure they'll make up sooner or later

Also… the thought of Deceptichum in particular being is a secret ML is absolutely fucking hilarious 😆. Like nah, wrong user.

Yeah not saying that. Just motivating people to read tankie literature in a community that claims to be not influenced by ML is worth pointing out to me.

Just because a ML said it doesn’t mean it’s wrong. I.e., anarchists can still read Marxist or even ML literature as long as we read it critically, with care for the statist cognitive biases inherent in their foundations.

Agree on the first part. Second part is IMO missing fron the meme.

vanguarding is required until we are all reenabled

I mean I'm autistic and I don't need nor want a vanguard. Hierarchical power structures like vanguards are especially dangerous for people like me, because they provide a positive feedback mechanism for people already at the top of the power dynamic. And it kinda doesn't sit right to me that my existence as an autistic person, my disability, is why we "need" a vanguard party. Maybe I'm missing something?

pretty sure tankies in threadiverse have nothing to do with ML theory.

I disagree. Many share important ideological things such as democratic centralism and many use the same talking points offline MLs use to defend their favorite states. In practice they also always seem to fall back to ML approaches when asked about what to do.

that’s the 1986 ed.. Anna already has the 2022ed..