• melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        tankies killed all the communists, then got named tankies for still defending killing all the communists again.

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        6 months ago

        You can call yourself a leftist without actually espousing ideals reflecting it.

        Tankies aren’t leftist, they’re leftist cosplayers.

        • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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          6 months ago

          I actually watched recently a few videos on YT by Klim Zhukov (in Russian, naturally ; he’s a Tankie and a historian by education), and I’m not so certain.

          I may even agree than in some things they are more orthodox-Marxist than most western left movements.

          Now, by Tankies I mean Stalinists here.