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[-] Sprinklebump@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

Sankara is a tankie by everyone's definition here. He came to power via a coup, held military tribunals trying people for corruption, formed armed groups to defend the revolution, and was vehemently against NATO, the IMF, and other western powers.

What does anti-authoritarian mean to you if Sankara is anti-authoritarian

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also arrested trade union leaders and got into it with a teacher's union. I obviously support Sankara, and like you say he's really not different from any other communist leaders except that he was assassinated and his work undone.

[-] Sprinklebump@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

He came to power via a coup, held military tribunals trying people for corruption, formed armed groups to defend the revolution, and was vehemently against NATO, the IMF, and other western powers.

You think trying people for corruption make you authoritarian?

Are you a liberal?

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

I think that authoritarian is a basically meaningless term when applied to a states.

All states are in the business of using lethal violence, or the threat of it at least, to enforce their rule within their borders.

[-] Sprinklebump@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Thats why i am an anarchist......

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay so if being "authoritarian" is bad and means you shouldn't be supported, and Sankara ran a state, making him authoritarian, by a definition you're now agreeing with (again, anyone who runs a state) why are you pretending you don't think he's an authoritarian and trying to use him as a cudgel against people who actually share an ideology with him?

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

oh god oh fuckxi-gun

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sankara supported the USSR and DPRK, just like all actual communists do

[-] Sprinklebump@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Im not a communist, i am an anarchist.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Then why are you telling communist to read about Sankara, a figure we already know and love

[-] Sprinklebump@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Becuase he is am example of a communist I support.

People keep calling me a liberal. Im an anarchist.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Sankara was ML like all the people you're calling tankies. I respect him too. What makes him good and and the rest of us evil "authoritarians"?

[-] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Sankara was a tankie

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

What do you think about Bakunin?

[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Im not a communist, i am a fedposting

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

He set up Popular Revolutionary Tribunals to prosecute public officials charged with political crimes[12] and corruption, considering such elements of the state counter-revolutionaries.[15] This led to criticism by Amnesty International for human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions and arbitrary detentions of political opponents.[16]

idk sounds pretty authoritarian to me.

[-] Sprinklebump@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

His country had corruption!

Im sure there is a better way but your acting like having tribunals makes you authoritarian.

It doesn't.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder if any other countries had to deal with corruption after the revolution... thinkin-lenin

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Statists using tribunals to try other statists is the use of state authority and the use of the state's monopoly on the legitimate use of force. If "Authoritarian" means anything at all then using the power of the state to prosecute people who are doing state stuff in ways you don't like is authoritarian.

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