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It's not, and those aren't the comments myself or the person I responded to were talking about. And yes, that take is dumb.
We were talking about the tankies -- in the original meaning of the word as coined by communists, not as a slur against communists in general. Authoritarianism and its apologists can get fucked. People that think we're in a zero-sum-game where they have to offset the (legitimate) evils of "the west" by being equally disgusting and brutal while on "the left" are fucking morons and don't deserve the title "communist".
The British morons who coined "tankie" were wrong then and their ideological successors are wrong now
The British communists, you mean? The ones that were pissed that the Soviets were violently crushing other communists for daring to object to their oppression? The ones that coined a term for their fellow Brits out of disgust that they were cheering it on?
The Brits called themselves communists, but you've spoken at length about how calling yourself communist means very little.
The Brits were morons or useful idiots and, while I hate Khrushchev and view him as a revisionist, it was correct for him to put down the color revolution lead by liberal reactionaries who called themselves communists.
Even
boy got a few things right. He may have been a shitty commie but even a bad commie can put down little a fascism, as a treat.