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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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[–] SkyezOpen 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Probably just that every rendition of communism so far has been authoritarian.

[–] grue 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hippie communes are a counterexample.

[–] SkyezOpen 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Every large scale rendition, then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Goal posts successfully moved

[–] SkyezOpen 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The previous comments were specifically talking about communist "regimes," and I clarified what I thought they meant to say. You shifted the framing to be pedantic, unless you genuinely count hippy communes as communist regimes.

[–] grue -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well if that's what you meant, then no shit a "regime" is authoritarian -- that's basically true by definition. But that just means your comment was tautological and vacuous, so what was your point?

[–] jumjummy 1 points 7 months ago

Ok, swap out regime for a country. Show me a country where communism has run well (as in not an authoritarian state).

Answer: none

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Goal post was successfully moved when hippie communities were brought up as a “regime”.

[–] Aux -3 points 7 months ago

Hippie communes are not countries and are dependent on the goodwill of everyone else around them.

[–] Apollo42 6 points 7 months ago

I would argue that an authoritarian state cannot be communist, though plenty have called themselves so.

[–] Aux -3 points 7 months ago

There can be no other rendition.