Tank Girl

Here to discuss communism, I am no leftist just a communist. SC based

[tankiegrrl]

If you consider yourself revolutionary in any way you must remember that you are not only fighting fascism for yourself but for the revolutionaries who came before and after you. People will tell you that you owe nothing to anybody but you do. Remove yourself from your individuality and see your comrades.

[omgellendean]

[tankiegrrl]

Liberal environmentalists will look you in your face and say the phrase "you can't eat money" but still actively support and advocate for capitalist democrats and policies.

My field of study is filled with these kinds of people. People who are almost to the answer but choose ignorance, because it is easier than stating communism is the answer and that capitalism is the enemy of our environment.

[kropotkindersurprise]

1991 - Fidel Castro speaks about the failures of Capitalism.

[rbremington]

“Anarcho-communism is contradictory!! It’s not a real thing!!”

Dude it’s literally just communism but anti authoritarianism… it’s not that difficult of a concept

[estrellagato]

"dude it's literally just communism but with a vague sense of "anti authoritarianism" with no further development of how communism would be established and maintained without establishing some kind of authority, it's not that difficult"

it's simple to understand and impossible to put into practice, which makes it perfect for those who like believing in things but dislike changing things

[funkyfeefee]

Saw a youtuber that I follow make a post comparing "Jewish supremacy" to hotep ideology as a way to dismiss the term and I genuinely cannot let this one go.

What makes this particularly maddening is watching western leftists overcorrect so hard in the name of protecting Jewish feelings that Palestinians get pushed entirely out of the conversation. This is so typically American; so obsessed with centring the feelings of the ingroup that the people actively being murdered get quietly moved into the second victim category. Palestinians coined the term "Jewish supremacy" to describe their lived experience of this ideology. Especially with the fact that Palestinians already get dismissed and branded as antisemitic when they try to express their suffering and are constantly expected to clarify that they don't mean all Jews, that Judaism is not Zionism, that they wish no harm on anyone, all before they are even allowed to describe their own oppression. That burden should not be on the victims. It is the work of Jewish people themselves to spearhead the effort of separating Zionism from Judaism and to lift that disclaimer off Palestinians every time they try to analyse their own oppression. That labour belongs to them, not to the people being killed.

Rejecting the term wholesale because antisemites have also used it is letting Zionists control the language of their own critique. The exact same move that turns any criticism of Israel into antisemitism and labels Palestinians as bigots for describing their oppression. We cannot claim to support Palestinians while refusing to acknowledge how deeply Zionism has colonised Jewish institutions. You cannot separate the two by pretending the entanglement does not exist. That is not nuance. That is silence dressed up as sensitivity, and Palestinians pay for it with their lives.

We understand how absurd it would be to expect Black South Africans to constantly stress that they wish no harm on all Afrikaners every time they want to talk about apartheid. Thee Boers were ethnically cleansed by the British, should Black South Africans have been expected to centre that history in every conversation about their own dispossession just because their oppressors also have a history of suffering? Of course not. So why is that the standard we tolerate here?

The American imperialism point is correct. The US does not bankroll Israel out of love for Jewish people; it does it to secure its Middle East interests, maintain a buffer against Islamic powers, whatever framework you prefer. Fine. But American imperialism and the internal ideological structures of Zionism are not competing explanations. They are co-constitutive. The US needs a willing settler population to occupy and maintain that vassal state, and that population has to be ideologically conditioned to do it. That conditioning happens inside Jewish institutions. Birthright programs. Synagogues financially tied to Israel. Palestinian land being auctioned in Jewish communal spaces. Young Jewish people raised to see Israel as their homeland and every threat to it as existential antisemitism. That is not fringe. That is infrastructure. The hotep comparison collapses here because hotep ideology has no institutional backing and produces no material harm to an occupied population. These are not equivalent things.

Jewish Americans benefit from Zionism and uphold its structures and should not be given a pass on the oppression of Palestinians. Most Jews in the west subscribe to Zionism because Jewish supremacy, a core tenet of the ideology, has been deliberately embedded in most Jewish institutions. If you tell a group with a real and brutal history of persecution that they need their own state because the world will exterminate them otherwise, and that they must secure it by any means necessary, it is very easy for them to buy in. Especially when the entire western media environment reinforces it; constantly framing Palestinian resistance as unprovoked, weaponising antisemitism and pushing the idea that all Arabs want to kill Jews. Add religion to the mix and the grooming is nearly complete.

Zionism, like any ideology designed to extract capital, needs a class of people willing to fund and legitimise its agenda. A significant portion of that class is Jewish, and the ideology has been made so entrenched in their daily lives that rejecting it carries real consequences; job loss, family estrangement, being expelled from your synagogue. That is not incidental. That is how ideological compliance is enforced.

I believe people should condemn harm done in their name and I say all of this as a Muslim myself. And I know it sounds uncomfortable. But we cannot keep handling Jewish feelings with kid gloves while people are actively being murdered. Yes, having your worldview shattered is a difficult and destabilising experience. But people's lives are on the line. Denying the extent to which Zionism has embedded itself in Jewish institutions does not protect Jewish people, it upholds the ideology. That is not harassment. That is basic accountability.

[tankiegrrl]

I have really been falling behind on my studies lately, due to work. I have even been missing my parties meetings.

I feel very ashamed. Does anybody have any tips on balancing my learning of communism and my day to day life?

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

I'm Restarting my Fundraising Post due to new circumstances, please share

Hey all! My name is Phoenix and I'm a white, Jewish (Free Palestine) and Panamanian Latina trans woman and union steward and organizer. I'm married to Olivia (@writeswrongs), the daughter of Salvadoran refugees, a U.S. naturalized citizen, a union organizer, anti-imperialist feminist and writer. We're asking for help today. 

I’ve been struggling to even find low wage entry level restaurant jobs and I have been out of work since mid-March after I got fired at my unionized job for allegedly leaving notes with "migrants welcome" and Jewish and Muslim religious symbols outside the living space of an open white nationalist. The fact that this person is a white nationalist is not being denied by my employer, who is claiming I created a safety risk and violated their equity principles by doing this. Meanwhile in the real world Nazis have repeatedly stalked me and my parents and spent years harassing our neighborhood with public rallies and calling for my and my wife's peoples to be exterminated by force. I am in the middle of a union grievance process with that employer to return to that job and/or receive backpay.

Because I've been out of work, there's been additional financial stress on our household. We hope to soon be a two person income home again very soon but we will need your help with rent and grocery costs. My wife hasn't been able to afford meals at work where she serves as a health assistant for homeless and low income people. We also recently were contacted to foster a new family member who was taken into the care of the state. This has been a very exciting and new process for us and we hope to soon be on our feet to support ourselves and my new sibling. She is being placed with us next week.

Please, if you can share this post, a multiracial queer couple dedicated to serving their community through direct service, union + tenant organizing and socialist political struggle will be able to maintain their housing as we transition into a new and exciting phase of our lives.

Rent is due by June 4th, 2026 and we are behind on our phone bill and the prior month’s split-in-two rent payment. My wife's check otherwise won't be able to cover rent and all our other expenses, and we wouldn't be able to afford groceries. 

My birthday was May 6th, and I couldn’t afford even the small present of a nice meal to myself so this would be a great late birthday present. Thank you. You can donate through these services below.

Venmo: writeswrongs CashApp: $writeswrongs / $PhoenixSinger PayPal: [email protected]

Our dog Karl Barx, who recently turned six years old in April.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Rent is approaching and we now have a new baby to care for, I’ve become a resource parent for my new infant sister after she was put into the custody of the state.

Definitely could still use help. Thank you all.

[tankiegrrl]

Multiple places in south Lebanon have been completely erased my google maps. Like they never fucking existed. This shit is not sweet. Fuck you hoes who are still middle ground.

[tankiegrrl]

is anyone else apart of the RCA(revolutionary communists of america)? Ive just started working with them and I want to know what other people think

[upthelinetodeath]

Trans day of visibility is coming up and I will no doubt forget to post this then, so I am posting it now. If any comrades are pondering names for themselves, here are some ideas:

(nicked from here)

[tankiegrrl]

I want you all to notice how little we see photos like this in media.

We as revolutionaries must never be afraid to be criminals. We are not the law. If the law restricts your movement, move until you break it. Just as chains restrict you, you must break them.

Do not be afraid of the law or authority. Be an authority. Become a force to be reckoned with.

[tankiegrrl]

Icon change because ya'll already know I love this photo.

[tankiegrrl]

Facism and the destruction of natural resources go hand in hand. Build a native garden to feed your neighbors and comrades.

[tinyuglyworld]

Young Palestinian guerrilla fighter for the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), 2000s🇵🇸

[fayebae]

Clara Zetkin

Feminist revolutionist Marxist icon and the originator of international women’s day

[tankiegrrl]

the meeting went super well, I'm happy to see my community is actually militarizing themselves and training. No one talks about it but we as the people who want change and revolution need to be as or even disciplined and trained than the enemy. They want us to be scattered and afraid. Organize now.