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[โ€“] 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?

[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

There's no non radical version of it