The problem with vanguardism isn't that there are people who protect/stand up for others, it's that it inevitably institutionalizes those people into positions of power over those others. Nurses, caregivers, etc. aren't "supposed" to have power over their patients, but they very often do. Humans are already good at protecting and supporting each other--no need to risk creating a power differential by forming a designated vanguard to rigidify it.

I feel like there's a disagreement on the definition of vanguardism. I didn't know it exactly, so i looked it up on Wikipedia and AnarWiki, and i get from those that a key element of the "strict" (leninist) definition is that it applies to a whole society rather than individual cases, and that it requires a minority of educated people to guide a mass of uneducated people, implying that the uneducated masses can take no part in it.

What you describe as one on one relations would seem to fall more under general "solidarity" than vanguardism to my eyes.

Also, vanguardism is by this definition not horizontal, neither consensual.

Feel free to correct my uneducated ass, but with the knowledge i have, it seems that you are using a much wider definition of vanguardism than the original one.

"Dogmatically accept a general vibe" is a new one for me. It's a very funny example of how comically baseless your criticisms are. So obsessed with shitting on us about every single thing that you can't even keep things straight. Won't let us have a single positive quality even to keep your story straight.

Let me repeat my precious question: is there anything about the "general vibe" I supposedly follow that actually deviates from the theory I supposedly haven't read? Do you actually have any reason to think we don't read theory, or are you just shitting on us in every possible way you can concieve of, with no basis in reality?

The rules are in place for actual enforcements. “Influence” here meaning actually mimicking Joseph Stalin for enforcing his views over all. e.g. “I would hate to gulag you for ‘wrongthink’”

That's a poor analogy. It's a federated network. No one is "gulaged" when we ban them. They've got the rest of the threadiverse to interact with. A "gulag" analogy would be apt if we had the ability to ban transphobic accounts from the whole of the fediverse, but we don't have that power. All we can do is stop them from entering our space.

We are no longer going to talk about tankies, I pray.

Pray all you want.
The definition of a tankie is a person that supports the idea that a country should have the right to use its military or paramilitary forces for suppressing unwanted domestic civilian activity.

If you do support tankie regimes, such as that of China or the Russia, you are a tankie.

Tankies are not okay. You see a tankie, punch him on the face. Thank you for your attention.