Self described anarchists - like Iain McKay and Wayne Price - have often condemned a " Tankie " Marxist-Communism that was pushed in a Leninist direction since 1917. At the same time they defend core Marxist economic dogma and like to respectfully debate with unorthodox Trotskyite types.
Is this a contradiction?
Not if both things are true in their tiny little peanut sized minds. Doublethink, a term coined by George Orwell in his novel "1984", describes the ability to simultaneously accept two contradictory beliefs as true, a form of mind control. It involves consciously inducing unconsciousness and then becoming unconscious of that very act of hypnosis, essentially forgetting and reforging memories as needed.
39 yo Marx to his bourgeois capitalist boss Engels, 15. August 1857
"Es ist möglich, daß ich mich blamiere. Indes ist dann immer mit einiger Dialektik zu helfen. Ich habe natürlich meine Aufstellungen so gehalten, daß ich im umgekehrten Fall auch Recht habe."
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