Seems controversial around these parts. But I cannot for the life of me support a lot of the authoritarian governments that claim to be leftist, especially the DPRK. I’ve read all the literature (finally) and I can’t believe any leftist would support them. I understand the importance of an authoritarian government during times of revolution, but the countries that employ it almost always feel anti-leftist and contradictory to leftist theory. I’m only recently this far left and I may just need more exposure. But even by their own metrics I don’t believe them to be leftist and they only use those labels to further indoctrinate people. Cuba is the only country I will support and even then, they’ve made inherently pro-capitalist and pro-imperialist decisions that make me feel that they too are moving into the position of being an authoritarian capitalist country with a mask of leftist bastardization.

Meat is murder and non-vegan leftists are being inconsistent in their beliefs

Tankies are a COINTELPRO operation to divide the left and wreck left-unity and solidarity.

Tankies are being manipulated specifically to divide the left, and the ONLY people who talk about left unity are the “Ultras” and “Anarchists” and “Democratic Socialists” - all of whom tankies REFUSE to associate with. Tankies revel in treating them with disdain and contempt and belittlement, pushing them away… rather than bringing them in and being kind, caring people who want to share their viewpoints with in an effort to educate and bring others into the fold. Tankies have ZERO interest in that.

The Feds LOVE that tankies end up isolating themselves by being dickheads and pushing out anyone who might have a chance of being brought over to the revolutionary mindset. They love it. Tankies are doing the work of the feds for them.

Blockchain technology could be useful to build socialism.

Law is just software that runs on people. In the US, the programming language is English, the OS is the United States Government and the kernel is the Constitution. States can be thought of as containers within this system.

Our current system is badly corrupted and needs a reinstall. Our devs basically write malware to benefit their donars. We even have ransomware (such as the budget negotiations). Our current system, built on democratic principals as they were understood 250 years ago, is totally clogged up with bloat, malware and closed source code doing who knows what. All the platforms are maximum enshittified. It’s like a 15 year old Windows install where it’s the only computer in the house, your grandmother has been clicking on every flashy blinky ad, your grandfather fancies himself a software engineer and has been messing around in Control Panel and they won’t let you touch it because screw you, they got theirs. Meanwhile your parents are at work 80 hours a week and “don’t use the computer anyway” because they’re just too tired to care.

The only thing to do with a system like that is to nuke it and reinstall. Everyone knows you can’t repair it.

We should replace it with something much more opensource. How about direct democracy using some sort of… oh I don’t know, some system of commits and pull requests. If someone writes some racist bullshit, well, everyone can see who he was and you can flame him on law hub. You can even just ban bad actors and trolls.

Would it be perfect and uncorruptible? No. Would the community always make the kind of decisions I would want? Definitely no. Would it be a massive improvement over what we have? Hell yes.

I have a few.

Tankies aren’t left-wing.

The second-biggest mistake the left ever committed was to leave religion to be fully co-opted by the right.

The anarchist critique of hierarchy is the most important critique the left has.

Also, anarchism, as an “ideology,” isn’t worth shit.

Power cannot be destroyed - it can merely be re-distributed.

We will probably never be able to get rid of currencies.

When it comes to socialism, close enough is good enough - but the state owning everything isn’t close at all.