Tankiejerk

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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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Seeing much more tankie from ml lately (lemmy.world)

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[–] TokenBoomer -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Cowbee made an excellent comment in this thread that explains the confusion over Marxism-Leninism.

Edit: Here’s a direct link for those having trouble accessing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What is this linked to? Not opening for me.

Edit: nevermind. I opened it in my browser. I wonder if I have this community or person blocked in Boost for Lemmy.

Copied with some formatting:

You can see on ProleWiki what Lemmygrad.ml’s stances are, in their words, and why. Their article on the Russian Federation backs up what you’ve said, they believe it is extremely reactionary with horrifying treatment of LGBTQ people and is currently ruled by the Nationalist party, but critically support Russia insofar as it opposes Western hedgemony and Imperialism, and no more than that.

Critically, Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and much of Lemmy.ml see Lenin’s definition of Imperialism as the number one obstacle in Socialism’s advance, that is, the state in Capitalism where Imperialist countries export machinery and finances to the third world in order to super-exploit outsider populations for super-profits domestically. This is a necessity within Capitalism to combat the Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall. It’s the concept of unequal exchange.

Now, of course you do not have to agree with Lemmygrad or Hexbear or Lemmy.ml, but as someone who regularly sees these posts, there are no delusional posters who somehow think the Russian Federation is still Communist or that Putin is secretly rebuilding the USSR.

ProleWiki: Political line

We are guided by Marxism-Leninism, mainly the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin. Based on that, ProleWiki upholds the currently developing dictatorships of the proletariat in:

Republic of Cuba
People's Republic of China
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Lao People's Democratic Republic

Really‽ They hold North Korea in high regard? I can see liking some of what Cuba, China, and Vietnam have done, but NK? I don't know enough about Laos to comment.

[–] Sprawlie 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Edit: nevermind. I opened it in my browser. I wonder if I have this community or person blocked in Boost for Lemmy.

you probably did what I did after my first week on Lemee, and just block the .ml instance completely from my feed. it's absolutely insane and is the prime example of why Federation doesn't really work great if not all federated servers are subject to the same rules.

.ml will outright let hate, violence and threats stand. But will instance ban anyone who questions their tankies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I don't block entire instances, just the individual communities. I've been tempted with that one and beehaw(sp?) but I haven't yet.