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I read books ๐ฑ๐ฑ
i've read marx. at precisely no point does he say anything justifying the various atrocities state capitalist countries have committed. i think he's wrong about some stuff, but even if you accept that his word is gospel, tankies are still just people who took leftist principles as an excuse for the imposing the kind of brutal authoritarianism that leftists are supposed to be against.
If you've read Marx, then you've surely read Engels as well?
On Authority - Marxists Internet Archive https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
yes i have, and his argument is fucking stupid. "oh yeah???? well doing stuff is authoritarian!" isn't the own you tankies seem to think it is.