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[–] FitchInks@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

OOTL what are tankies?

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

From wikipedia

Tankie is a pejorative label for communists, particularly Stalinists, who support the authoritarian tendencies of Marxism–Leninism or, more generally, authoritarian states associated with Marxism–Leninism in history. The term was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

[–] MelissaLiberty@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People that support the more authoritarian tendencies of historical Marxist-Leninist states (ie socialism). However, it’s mostly used as an insulting word for communist from uninformed liberals who then (like this idiotic post) compare them to literal nazis and the likes.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Gross misuse of IE considering socialism is literally a less extreme version of communism.

Marxist-Leninist was literally communism where in their own words it was "a dictatorship of the proletariat". Where Marx and Engels literally dismissed socialism as "a middle class movment of quacks." In Marx's outline of socialism, it literally disregards it as "capitalism still exists to a lesser degree." ML-communism is authoritarian and completely different that most forms of socialism as well as "pure" communism.

Socialism, on the other hand has either state-controlled or private-but-worker-controlled economy with a democratically elected government and not necessarily single party. It was an entirely other school of people and ideas. China is not socialism as their government is not elected, but appointed by a ruling party. It is a statist-oligarchy plain and simple.

Socialism is constantly misused. Stalin and hell, the Nazis called themselves socialist even though they weren't at all. George Orwell actually said that Marxist-Leninist communism has circles around and is on the right again.

[–] nunyunuymi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

left wing bootlickers

[–] ItsYaBoiBananaBoi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Allegedly left-wing bootlickers. Historically, they are more comparable to fascists than anything leftist.