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"Critical support" apparently lacks critical examination of sources (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

It was the infertile soils of the Ukraine that led to the Holodomor! /S

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

Not all communists are tankies!

I certainly hope so anyway...

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

I agree, just that the hammer-and-sickle is pretty associated with MLs.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I mean to be communist (as in Marxist-Leninist) you have to believe in the ideology that produced the system whose supporters we call tankies. It's not hard to see the correlation I'd say.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago

The tankies are the radical branch, it's like saying that to be a capitalist you need to embrace fascism.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

No amount of socialism is going to make one support Chinese tanks rolling over protesters in Tiananmen, so I'd say that rather than being radical they're just a cult. Stalin wasn't a radical socialist; he was a power-hungry dictator who coopted socialist rhetoric. I mean what set of beliefs would you even call the non-radical version of tankiesm?

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

There's no non radical version of it

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