and Auth Left is even more theory than communism is
Uhhh... what??
I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say that they meant "even more theoretical than communism is" which doesn't make a ton more sense because when you're talking about political theory then saying something is more theory/theoretical can mean that it's more theory-heavy. I'm going to assume that they mean to say "hypothetical" though this is taking two more leaps than I would want to or need to if the commenter was a bit perspicuous in their phrasing.
The thing is, speaking as a long-term anarchist recently turned ML, it's a bit galling to accuse the "auth" left of being hypothetical given that if anything the lib left has much less in the way of real-world examples to hang their collective hat on. And on top of that, the lib left political projects that are generally pointed at as being exemplars of lib left values fall far short of their touted values, to the point that I struggle to understand how they can be upheld as positive examples at all, or otherwise they point to examples which reject labels like "libertarian left" or ones which have virtually no historical scholarship existing in the anglophone world to speak of.
Edit: Oh no...
I'm no Marx scholar but I'm pretty sure that Marx's critique of the Paris Commune must have centered around needing more unions, right? Right?
thats so crazy i wonder if anybodys ever tried to create a political system based around some type of worker councils.... like some type of soviet system
When you've definitely read and understood Kapital, which shows that Unions without a revolutionary outlook act as maintainers of capitalist exploitation at the maximum sustainable level.
They're a Vaushite - they don't need to read Marx to understand him. All they need to do is to make wild claims about his writings and occasionally tap the Vaushite standard issue belt buckle insignia emblazoned with the slogan GottMarx Mit Uns (but only when yet-another damn tankie dares to question their literacy 😤)
(Throwback to Keffals freaking out about how Hakim constantly references books for his audience to read if they want to do further examination on subjects he mentions. Because that's definitely not emblematic of an attitude of antipathy towards book lernin' from the Vaush-adjacent cohort.)
This is technically true in that the political compass test would put every "tankie" on hexbear in lib left, according to the test you have to be homophobic and racist to be "auth left"
all those tankie countries are just [...] a revolution that failed
OK, fine, sure, but shouldn't it set off a few alarm bells that so many "failed"? Especially when the lovin' countries are the ones which relieved those places of their historical wealth through colonization, for decades or centuries.