• InputZero@lemmy.ml
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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.

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        1 year 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.

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            1 year 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.