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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Are you saying Antifa are tankies?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Who is the tanky in the picture?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My bad eyes totally didn't see that was the antifa flag.

So nothing I said applies to this post ... whoops.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Kay I need to ask, how does Lemmy use tankie? I've always thought it meant people who are willing to use violence against capitalist. I have a feeling I'm wrong.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Tankie is someone who thinks that Mao (and modern CCP) and Stalin were super alright people who did nothing wrong.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

AFAIK a tankie is someone who is a fan of authoritarian communism or socialism… I forget which but the key part is the authoritarianism part, I think.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah, they're fans of the so-called "communism" of authoritarian countries like China and the USSR, which are about as communist as the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is democratic or a republic.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Okay, gotcha. Tankie == historical communist. Tankie =/= neosocialist.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not necessarily, Leninists and OG Marxists usually don't get lumped in with Tankies - while Trotskists definitely should be. Tankies accept blatant authoritarianism as an acceptable cost to achieve socialism, non-Tankies reject authoritarian regimes.

... and super-Tankies are Pol Pot apologists.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Thank you! It's all about that authoritarianism.

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