• SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    When a liberal says “tankie” they mean anything remotely communist-looking. When a leftist says “tankie”, they mean authoritarians who like red flags and self-proclaimed communists who nonetheless support hierarchies and have no plan or intention to bring them down. I think the vast majority of people here knows this already.

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      2 years ago

      Mostly True, while (at least in my part of the world) there are a lot of people who like red flags but fight against hierarchies.

      • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        There are plenty of Marxists and Marxist-derived socialists who aren’t Tankies.

        They just don’t make up the majority.