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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Any talk of communism is a "red" herring when it comes to this topic. Russia isn't in any way officially, notionally, or superficially communist.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People still be calling Russia communist even though the Soviet Union famously fell under Boris Yeltsin

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

... and people calling themselves communist still leaping to its defence, for some inexplicable reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah I don’t get that one either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s more the idea that a lot of communists have that “anything that challenges American global hegemony = automatically good.”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Colloquially referred to as "Tankies". America = Bad, therefore Not America = Good mostly sums up Tankie takes, but more properly Tankies is a pejorative for authoritarian communists, usually apologists for China and the CCP nowadays. IIRC originally it referred to communist parties in Western countries that excused Soviet actions during the Prague Spring and such, although I'd say that is an obsolete term.