Because oppessing people is okay as long as you’re the one doing it for totally good reasons! Absolute power TOTALLY won’t corrupt you! Even funnier how a ton of Hexbear tankies showed up to that thread to downvote bomb everyone, just like they’re known for doing. Haven’t changed one bit in the past year or so!
I always ascribed it to willfully misinterpreted theory. That is, “dictatorship of the proletariat” actually meaning “the proletariat makes the rules, not the capitalists”, as opposed to the M-L “we should have an authoritarian, autocratic state that’s a good thing for… reasons… And oppress people that we don’t like under the guise of being anticapitalist”.
Then again, I’m an anarchist and I’ve seen unironic suggestions from M-Ls to put us in “reservations” as a “solution” to our lack of willingness to accept authoritarian rule. So, maybe I have a more generous interpretation than it deserves.
This is true. It basically means democracy without bourgeois interference