it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know
it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know
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Workplace democracy is tankie bullshit now? Ok then.
Right? I'm trying to figure out how I could be a tankie but also in the US...
Your geographic location doesn't dictate your beliefs, opinions, etc. At all. I have a friend that grew up in America, he's Muslim, he's got family in Jordan IIRC. But I was like, you're pro-America. Right? No, turns out he much prefers Jordan & wants to move someday.
Maybe you espouse tankie beliefs. Or maybe not, idk your life.
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express support for one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well
So, not me. but still random lemmy users will screech tankie at me.
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Tankies would support the USSR (a dictatorship). This logic is Socialist. More like, pro-union, but then a bit more radical than that.
And spot on that you'd be in prison for disagreeing with your boss in the good old USSR.
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People end up on the street because they reported something at their company, or turned down the advances of their boss.
All medical care is tied to employers most of the time, so if you don't obey that means losing access to medicine. Sometimes medicine necessary to live or function normally.
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It an edge case because people do whatever it takes to avoid it.
Someone who tolerates harassment, or unsafe working conditions to keep their job doesn't get added to the "on the streets stats" but that threat is always present in their lives if they demand their rights.
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I never said anything in support of the PRC/USSR, I said workers should have unions they could vote in.
Calling people names and assuming their ideology isn'ta good way to have a discussion.
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Hey, just want to commend you for being so nice to that disingenuous commenter above. Thanks for making Lemmy a nice place to be :)
And your example of people “ending up on the streets” is such a fucking edge case.
It's really not. See Portland, Oregon. It's pretty much over run with homeless people at this point.
I see a lot of that kind of sentiment here.