https://discuss.online/post/29250428/18869440
I thought I’d try my hand at explaining why this meme fundamentally misunderstands communist theory and that I’d better move it here after I posted it, because the people on that community sure love downvoting and/or removing any good point made against the tankie dogma.
Oh, and remember to always lead by challenging tankies’ attempts to portray themselves as the ingroup of communism and any critics as the outgroup. That’s a tactic they love using, they construct their opinions as the absolute communist truth, and brand any opposing opinion as liberal and capitalist, while also strawmanning it. If you open by criticising their communist credentials, they can’t dismiss you as a liberal and pretend they’re arguing in good faith.
And the accuracy of these records isn’t nearly as solid as physical records. With oral history, how do you differentiate fact from fiction?
And there’s the racism. To answer your question, the record keepers are verified in skill and trustworthiness by their predecessors, and they take their jobs very seriously because if they mess up, their friends could die. The information in oral histories is practical and academic in equal measure. If a tribe has a bad record keeper, they don’t survive very long.
I’m not saying it’s perfect, but it’s at least as accurate as all the nonsense Herodotus wrote down. Putting it on paper didn’t keep half of it from being made up. And Australian historical records go a lot further back than Herodotus’ age.
lmao im not being racist
where are you from anyway? since i’m from australia and you’re pulling so much shit from your ass