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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not all communists are tankies!

I certainly hope so anyway...

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

There's no non radical version of it