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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by stinky@anarchist.nexus to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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After seeing a megathread praising Mao Zedong, an actual mass killer, and a post about a guy saying "99% of westerners are 100000000000% sure they know what happened in 'Tiny Man Square' [...] the reasons for this are complex and involve propaganda [...]," I am genuinely curious what leads people to this belief system. Even if propaganda is involved when it comes to Tiananmen Square, it doesn't change the atrocities that were/are committed everywhere else in China.

I am all for letting people believe what they want but I am lost on why one would deliberately praise any authoritarian system this hard.

Can someone please help me understand why this is such a large and prominent community? How have these ideals garnered such a following outside of China?

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who has responded! This thread has been very insightful :)

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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Right, I don't think that comes as news to anyone who has heard about US healthcare. The fact that the people however wanted a vanguard party, that people aren't just desolate and downtrodden under communism but actually hopeful about the future was extremely insightful news to me.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

People can be happy about monarchies. Monarchies are still fucking bad!

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok? Still after years of hearing otherwise this kind of insight is what broke me out of capitalist propaganda.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, I'm happy for you. All I say is, don't trade one propaganda for the next

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Idk this lenin guy sounds pretty good to me (I'm reading State and Revolution rn)

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Lenin wrote different things than what he actually did.