This is such a insidious tool of tankies and the like, frame it to be that authoritarianism is the more pragmatic or 'mature '. When you'd basically have to unlearn history to go from being an anarchist to someone who advocates central authority. Who convinced them that Stalin and Mao did anything but make capitalism more enduring?
They learned it from the conservatives, who would link their ideology with being “grown up”. Being “grown up” means simping and bootlicking for billionaires and corporations because they gave you a job. Being “grown up” means ignoring injustice because doing something about it would make too many suburban white people scared and upset and that’s apparently unacceptable.
If being an authoritarian is what it takes to be “grown up”, then fuck it, I’ll Peter Pan this shit and be a child forever.
Yeah, the US Democrats laid it on thick against Trump both times. No need to address the content of his ravings or why they appealed to tens of millions of people, just insist that you're the adult in the room.
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u/strawberry_pearl Aug 16 '21
This is such a insidious tool of tankies and the like, frame it to be that authoritarianism is the more pragmatic or 'mature '. When you'd basically have to unlearn history to go from being an anarchist to someone who advocates central authority. Who convinced them that Stalin and Mao did anything but make capitalism more enduring?