So you don’t think taking away someone’s bank account for their comments counts as suppressing free speech? Do you even read what you type?
Censorship? Like when the authoritarian Western regimes and corporations ban all Russian and Chinese journalism?
“bUt ThAt’S dIsInfOrMaTiOn!”
And that’s exactly what they say of American news media propaganda!
Cowbee wasn’t saying that it’s bad to make your own space, per se; he was saying that communities of like-minded people are naturally going to develop on the Fediverse because of its decentralized nature. No Hexbear would deny that we created the site for ourselves.
I think Petterson’s succinct definition is one of the best ones I’ve encountered, but the one in that study isn’t too bad—it’s certainly better than Wikipedia’s. I take issue with just two of the terms:
Stalinist is just a pejorative for Marxist-Leninist, and authoritarianism is a practically useless word that’s based purely on one’s ideology.
All states are authoritarian because they have monopolies on the use of violence. Liberals don’t view the routine weaponization of the bourgeois state against poor people as authoritarianism, but will instantly decry the reverse as such. Thus, a billionaire landlord evicting a single mother isn’t characterized as authoritarian, but Maoists giving landlords the boot is. Germany seizing the bank accounts of critics of Israel (as happened recently) isn’t labeled authoritarian, but the Stasi doing the same to corrupt capitalists in East Germany was.
Although there is not really a concrete definition, recent work by Petterson [87] provides a succinct description of tankies:
Tankies regard past and current socialist systems as legitimate attempts at creating communism, and thus have not distanced themselves from Stalin, China etc.
You know nothing about us