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Remember me comrades! (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sankara isn't a non-tankie just because he didn't live to the tankie phase, he was always acting as an ML.

I believe there is a difference in being ML and having police state aspirations/trending authoritarian. Which is when I use the term tankie.

Maybe I'm wrong tho you tell me. I liked what sankara did and I dont want to negate the cool things he did simply becuase he got murdered and we dont know what he was going to become.

There is nuance in his life that I can accept. But what I cannot accept is modern day MLs who look fondly on the actions of the USSR, russian federation and the modern day CPC. they are large authoritarian states that I cannot support as an anarchist.

Everytime I bring this up tho. I get called a lib.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sankara was murdered 31 years after the revolt in Hungary was put down. He supported the USSR. He was, by definition, a tankie.