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and then engage in a form of anti communism. You give power to our enemies ammunition.

No, tankies do that themselves. I make the distinction that we're not all like them, and that communism isn't just tankiesm. This argument is fundamentally evil, the notion that I shouldn't perform self-critique because i might find legitimate flaws is an incredibly terrible take.

then you would find the good faith ones and try and figure out why they, in good faith, have questionable views, and try to engage politically. Instead you otherize them just like any objectivist bourgeois liberal. And you wonder why I say you stand with libs?

I do wonder. They are others, they don't just have questionable views, they have horrible ones, like the notion that people should be jailed for writing erotica. There's a reason the anarchist-leninist schism happened, leninists/maoists seem to just want objectively horrible things and control over everything. Do you actually think that will reach people? No. We need to self-criticize, we need to change, not all of our views are deserving of merit. We must use self-criticism to get better, and then, and only then, will we actually reach people in a sensible way.

Furthermore, do you think I don't read these good faith discussions on my own? How do you think i'm creating a steel-man exactly without engaging in this exactly?

Maybe I don’t know what you’ve read or whatever, but (for example) a biologist would know if someone who wasn’t a biologist was just like making biology noises, or if they were legit.

Show me an example of a misconception I hold. They would easily be able to do that.

I’m not trying to gatekeep, but this anti tankie behavior is lib behavior, its the same one sided “authoritarianism” that the stalinists believe in, justification for purges.

Criticizing a group is justification for purges... This is exactly why the movement needs self-criticism. If all you can say for why i'm a lib is that i criticize things, then you're the one who has lost sight of the movement, not me. Communists need to improve our theories, if our theories are above question, then we've lost the plot.

When two contradictory sides mirror each other, like positive and negative, they are one thing, thats basic dialectics. You can steelman all you want, a steelman is just a strawman made out of something shiny (and it prob took the owner too long to put together, but just stands there.)

Objectively nonsense. Do you believe steelman arguments don't exist? Steelman arguments are constructed in a way where the party being steelmanned can simply say it isn't a steelman because of X and then you try again... strawmen are deliberate misunderstandings. These have nothing in common other than you say so.

If you want to move past where the tankies are, because you’re stuck with them now, then you have to dump your objectivist worldview.

Self-critique is exactly where theory comes from, y'know. Your opposition to it is actually hilarious, as a communist, self-critique should be the most valuable thing in the world, it's where communist ideology comes from itself.

Sorry but that was a bunch of angry nonsense and you've convinced me that you in fact don't know what you're talking about, you only help the libs when you do this stuff. Stuff like this makes us look awful. Literally nobody is going to become a communist if you say communism is above critique and any critique we do on the movement makes you a lib. People like you prevent people from seeing the truth in communism.