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[CW: reddit link] Redditor Uses "Stalinist" to Define "Tankie"
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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To call yourself an ML and also uses terms like Stalinism unironically? Maybe I'm wrong but this smells like fedposting or larping.
In my experience, "Stalinism" gets thrown around a lot where I live particularly by the -ists (starts with a T). It's to discern themselves from the "wrong kind of socialism" that advocates for "authoritarian regimes" and "genocide". The type that proclaims real socialism doesn't exist in those "regimes". Not by MLs.
Anyway, sectarian/purism nonsense imo. Maybe mods gave up after the Reddit API shitstorm.
I know I have lol
I don't wanna sound too tin foil hat but it feels like the user is a plant. They even cite Wikipedia to "back up" their claim on it.
And yeah mods giving up maybe. I know that sub didn't go dark over the api shit but they might have had a changing of the guard? The content there used to way better quality it seemed.