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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist, anti-capitalist perspective.

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No genocide denial

We allow posts about tankie behavior even off fedi, shitposts, and rational, leftist discussion.

Curious about non-tankie leftism? If you've got a little patience for 19th century academic style, let a little Marx and Kropotkin be your primer!

Marx's Communist Manifesto, short and accessible! Highly recommended if you haven't read it

Kropotkin's Conquest Of Bread

Selected works of Marx

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[–] yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What even is a tankie? supporting the USSR using tanks to crush the Hungarian revolution is too broad anybody who opposes capitalism could get called a tankie.

Anybody who calls someone a tankie loves capitalism actually if you don't support everything about the DPRK you actually hate socialism and love western imperialism.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

[–] yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I know

I was just making fun of tankies because they often say things like "you just call everyone who doesn't like capitalism a tankie" while they call other socialist who don't like their authoritarianism a lib or whatever

Perhaps I should have put a /s