• Tempus Fugit
      link
      fedilink
      English
      23 months ago

      Nah, tankie is pretty synonymous with authoritarian communism, which is no bueno in my book.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        12 months ago

        You’re apparently fine with non-communist authoritarianism then, given that capitalism requires the authoritarian enclosure of the Earth’s common and the forcible restriction of human movement into centrally controlled “nation states”.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      32 months ago

      the difference between the “good” MLs and the “bad” ones is completely unclear.

      No it’s not, Tankies are very clearly defined to be “Authoritarians”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

      Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.

      And it’s demonstrated by

      Perpetuating Russian talking points like Ukraines invasion just being a “negotiating tactic” https://lemmy.world/post/27012640 and their open declaration of support for Russia (direct from dessalines) https://lemmy.world/post/27352415 and even defending concentration camps as "concentration camps were just reeducation camps and weren’t that bad https://lemmy.world/post/26985447

      I’ve got Tankies supporting Trump because he’s doing what they want: https://lemmy.world/post/28033872 and basically stating with Trump it’s an ends justify the means kinda thing: https://lemmy.world/post/27950020 censoring comments that just say you shouldn’t romanticize Stalin and the USSR: https://lemmy.world/post/27673934

      And much much more on [email protected]