I mean, “opposite” implies some kind of continuum that they’re both placed on. “Up” is the opposite of “down,” it’s not up vs. banana.
In this case, I’m comfortable saying that on the “bullshit politics I learned from the internet that sound clever but are in practice an instant disaster to anyone living through them” continuum, tankies and ancaps are like sugar and spice.
Edit: Oh no what have I done… I adjusted the analogy to a gender neutral one
“Boy” is only the opposite of “girl” if you’re working within the framework of gender binary. One could equally argue that “non-binary” is the opposite of both “boy” and “girl.”
Similarly, “Right Libertarian/AnCap” and “Tankie” are opposite ways to justify authoritarianism and atrocities (dictatorship of the “market” vs dictatorship of the proletariat). “Anarchist/Left Libertarian” is the opposite of both because both assert that non-consentual hierarchies are normal and excuse the atrocities that come with them while anarchism rejects the validity of non-consentual hierarchy.
Oh no… okay that’s on me. I adjusted the analogy to one that’s independent of gender issues.
But actually, I do agree with your analogy as applied to boy/girl, and the whole rest of what you’re saying here. It’s more or less what I was saying actually, I think – tankies and ancaps have quite a lot in common with one another and the answer lies somewhere else entirely.
It is not the opposite of tankies unless the continuum you’re looking at is awful politics.
I mean, “opposite” implies some kind of continuum that they’re both placed on. “Up” is the opposite of “down,” it’s not up vs. banana.
In this case, I’m comfortable saying that on the “bullshit politics I learned from the internet that sound clever but are in practice an instant disaster to anyone living through them” continuum, tankies and ancaps are like sugar and spice.
Edit: Oh no what have I done… I adjusted the analogy to a gender neutral one
Yep.
“Boy” is only the opposite of “girl” if you’re working within the framework of gender binary. One could equally argue that “non-binary” is the opposite of both “boy” and “girl.”
Similarly, “Right Libertarian/AnCap” and “Tankie” are opposite ways to justify authoritarianism and atrocities (dictatorship of the “market” vs dictatorship of the proletariat). “Anarchist/Left Libertarian” is the opposite of both because both assert that non-consentual hierarchies are normal and excuse the atrocities that come with them while anarchism rejects the validity of non-consentual hierarchy.
Oh no… okay that’s on me. I adjusted the analogy to one that’s independent of gender issues.
But actually, I do agree with your analogy as applied to boy/girl, and the whole rest of what you’re saying here. It’s more or less what I was saying actually, I think – tankies and ancaps have quite a lot in common with one another and the answer lies somewhere else entirely.