• ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Except Russia and China aren’t even pretending ti be communist.

    Russia is a christo fascist oligarchy.

    And China is a corporatist authoritarian state.

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      1 year ago

      This doesn’t stop tankies from being pro-Russia and pro-China. Modern tankies are absolutely happy with oligarchies and gigacorporations running the world, they just hate western society.

      In essence, they worship authoritarianism rather than communism itself.

      I’d say the difference between a tankie and a socialist is that a socialist wants equality and well-being for everyone and tankies just want people they don’t like to die at the hands of an authoritarian regime, regardless of whether it’s actually a communist regime.

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        1 year ago

        100%. It’s basic edgy tribalism. I have no problem with economically socialists or even communist individuals. They’re not a threat in my world. But these people are just weirdos who are bad at understanding history and basic definitions of policy structures. I think a lot of them are simply trolls. And they’ll ban you for offering any rebuttal to their objectively false history revisionism.

        Either way, they’re not top left of any political compass, they’re top right with an anti western spin.