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@transtrams Huh I wonder what Stalin did to KPD leaders

@m__baron These people don't even use "tankie" as a synonym for "stalinist", it just means marxist in general

@transtrams You realize that there was legitimate communists in the KPD prior to the Stalinist purge?

@AutumnOfAstri3 Yes

@transtrams Who cares

@thehellmaxxerFU thank you angelcorpse for your input

@transtrams Post German Civil War KPD got super cringe super fast. Their alligenment with Stalin stands totally against the political project of Liebknecht, Luxemburg, and the whole of the Spartakusbund.

@161Northeast I agree. So?

@slender__777 I don't use it exactly because of that lol

@transtrams I wonder what happened to the KPD

@transtrams ...modern day antifa has ZERO connection to interwar germany. Contemporary antifa comes out of resistance to racist/facist/neo-nazi/reactionary movement building in the late 70s and early 80s in the UK/US/Germany/etc 1/3

@transtrams ok and? the three arrows were a social democrat symbol and now they're a socialist one, the iron cross was a military symbol and now it's a nazi one... what's your point? symbols change

@transtrams Yeah they spent their time going after the SPD and contributed to the Nazis taking the streets. So absolutely nothing has changed. The name and the symbol is in better hands now.

@transtrams The term tankie came into existence about 30 years later, for a very good reason. Any reasonable person today should consider antifa to be also anti-tankie.

@transtrams Couldn't be me wasting time punching left at "tankies" instead of actually focusing on things that matter. Anarchists never beating the Anarkiddie allegations