Surrendering Marx because shitheads use him as an aesthetic is like surrendering the American flag because shitheads use it as an aesthetic. All you do in doing so is lending power to your enemies for no good goddamn reason. Even less justified, really, since Marx has pretty clearly stated inclinations, while the US flag is far more abstract.

Especially silly when half of the tankies on here haven’t read enough Marx to fill a thimble, and regularly and blatantly contradict him.

What’s your point? This meme is tankie because tankies like Marx? Makes no sense. This meme even has the original political statement removed from it as the main joke and you’re talking about how it’s tankie?

I would urge you to block lemmy.ml if you think they’re swarming. It’s pretty much only there, I blocked .ml and omg it’s been so nice here now

Ironically that statement is not controversial on .ml because they want it to be true.