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No tankies are authoritarian left.
I commented elsewhere, but all states are authoritarian. What matters is which class is exerting its authority. In Socialist states, that class is the Proletariat against the Bourgeoisie. Marxists are not any more "auth" than other ideologies, and not any less.
States can present as more or less auth depending on the circumstances they are in, when the class struggle is a sharpened contradiction, but that doesn't mean the state is making a choice to be more or less auth, just that it responds to different circumstances.
Marxists in general are in favor of controlling the speech of the bourgeoisie, as were Marx and Engels:
>6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Marxists are not "anti-free speech," nor are Hexbear and Lemmy.ml. Rampant misinformation and bigotry should be removed, and is. Marxists, including .ml and Hexbear, are absolutely pro-Human Rights. Marxists do hate liberals, liberals are pro-Capitalism apologists, and thus liberalism has been a target of Socialists of all stripes since liberalism became a thing.
How do you create so many nearly identical posts? Is it just copy pasta? Is it full automation? I mean holy shit, if I created a bot, it would react to questions like this.
In case you didn't read that thing here's that thing again. Ehhh.
In this case, I copied and pasted a response to a comment they copied and pasted. I'm not doing it for them, but for onlookers, I don't genuinely think psythik is going to be meaningfully convinced either way. Leaving psythik's comment open and unopposed, though, isn't preferable either, as bad takes should be properly elaborated on.
I tend to just link previous comments I have made, in most cases. I copy and paste responses far less now than I used to. In my defense, though, when you see the same talking points from different people, they don't always need a unique bespoke response, and I don't actually spend all that much time on Lemmy out of my day.