Free education -Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Vietnam

15% wage for rent - Soviet Union

Land Redistribution (Landback?) - Cuba, China, Soviet Union

Unions - Soviet Union, Cuba, China, Vietnam, DPRK

Free natural disaster reconstruction - DPRK

State of the art public transit - China

No electricity bill -Gaddafi Libya

No interest loans - Gaddafi Libya

On work site medical care - Soviet Union

Pre employment unemployment UBI - Gaddafi Libya

We can go on and on and on and on and on.

If one is an “anti tankie”, then it must follow that one must be against these kinds of policies.

Progressives and leftists DREAM of having these things. But they’re committed to being against the tankies.

They have yet to demonstrate how the masses are supposed to get these benefits by negotiating and appealing to the good graces of capitalists.

But they’re TERRIFIED at the prospect that the people.may do these exact things AT GUNPOINT. As if they know those guns are meant for them.

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    Maybe if you don’t want to be killed or imprisoned by a worker’s state, stop…sabotaging it?

    Not to mention these countries historically and relatively are far more patient with internal saboteurs than capitalist countries. Ask the Black Panthers, the union leaders, even the liberal BLM/Occupy protestors, how nominally going against American hegemony went for them…

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      Honestly though. When you actually study the context of the political purges in the USSR it’s almost frustrating how forgiving the party under Stalin was in the beginning. Like things eventually escalated to extremity because they kept forgiving saboteurs and opportunists.

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      Obligatory reminder that for example Zinoviev and Kamenev were expelled from the party three times before getting accused of treason, while just the stunt they pulled shortly before the revolution would be enough for them to meet the wall in every single capitalist country (and they weren’t even kicked out back then so not included in those three times).