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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Derogatory term accusing someone of being a communist/Marxist.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

More specifically, Stalinist/Maoist/any-other-„communist“-tyrant-ist. It refers specifically to people who excuse/deny tyranny and oppression caused by anyone who calls themselves communist.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

As I said, communists/Marxists. Marx was an "authoritarian" socialist, and by far the largest strain of Marxism in the world is "Stalinism," aka Marxism-Leninism, the second largest probably being Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

And, as I said, it's derogatory, which suggests the people saying it view such strains of thought as "tyrannical." So no part of your correction was at all necessary.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

No, it's specifically authoritarian communists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The term is used outside that scope frequently.

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