• takeda@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Today were can clearly see that, communism was always a red herring. Tankies during cold war and tankies today (that love to dress in American flags), were always about supporting of totalitarian regimes.

    The hammer and sickle is to support USSR.

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      9 months ago

      Tankie is a special sort of communist. Doesn’t seem fair to paint all communists as tankies.

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        9 months ago

        Tankie is just facist wearing red instead of brown. Leave communism out of it.

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      9 months ago

      Nah communism is just naive people trying to enact collectivist policies wholesale not realising or not wanting to believe that such policies are incredibly open to subversion by authoritarian groups.

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        9 months ago

        collectivist policies

        Why do you fine folks draw lines on political and skin pigmentation if it’s about collectivism?

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          9 months ago

          At the risk of feeding a troll.
          My argument is basically the ‘china/russia were never real communism’ one but with the caveat that real communism isn’t possible in the first place with real human beings because its so easy for a bad actor to hijack the entire thing and thus that will inevitably happen almost immediately. Any real communist is probably naive, deluded or excessively optimistic.

          Tankies are just the same kind of bad actor who are the reason such a system is impossible in the first place and promote communism simply as way to seize ever more power. Its a very pedantic point of view but I’m sick of the right wing changing the definition of words.

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        9 months ago

        I was talking about tankies, whose definition says those are communists that were also fine with using tanks on population by Soviets during the Hungarian revolution.

        I’m trying to say those people weren’t as much in love with communism as with the love of the Soviets and this is much easier to see today since Russia isn’t communist.