What's your definition of tankie? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/tankiejerk@lemmy.world

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This is something I always get in arguments about, whenever I use the word tankie hexbear and grad users argue that its just a term for socialists.

I've always just used it to referr to authoritarian communists, i.e, people who unironically support modern russia, and/or oppose ukraine, and think nothing happened to the uyghurs.

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[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

They're not communists

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Thats dangerously close to the "no true scotsman" fallacy.

[-] amino 5 points 1 week ago

their end goal is state capitalism though, so I don't see the contradiction

[-] FundMECFSResearch 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah. If they call the current state of China with literal billionaires, communist, then they aren’t communist in any economically defined sense of the world

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