It was the infertile soils of the Ukraine that led to the Holodomor! /S
Not all communists are tankies!
I certainly hope so anyway…
I agree, just that the hammer-and-sickle is pretty associated with MLs.
I mean to be communist (as in Marxist-Leninist) you have to believe in the ideology that produced the system whose supporters we call tankies. It’s not hard to see the correlation I’d say.
The tankies are the radical branch, it’s like saying that to be a capitalist you need to embrace fascism.
No amount of socialism is going to make one support Chinese tanks rolling over protesters in Tiananmen, so I’d say that rather than being radical they’re just a cult. Stalin wasn’t a radical socialist; he was a power-hungry dictator who coopted socialist rhetoric. I mean what set of beliefs would you even call the non-radical version of tankiesm?
We have the same behavior in domestic politics…
My team good, your team bad
Said the wage slave 🤡
