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What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)

I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

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[-] redhilsha@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When a South Asian calls the British monarchy fascist or Churchill a genocider in my experience.

[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Isn't monarchy already a bigger bad word in itself than fascism?

[-] wrestlingfan@onjase.quebec 1 points 3 days ago
[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Please expand upon that thought.

[-] redhilsha@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Not according to the Yakubians over at the miserable island.

[-] anoriginalthought@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I actually always wondered a bit about the line between fascism and monarchism. To the casual observer they might seem nearly identical, though I wonder if in historical materialist terms it's a reactionary attempt to backslide to feudalism rather than progress capitalism to socialism.

[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Fascism doesn't necessarily have the hereditary property of monarchism. Power can easily get transferred to other families, not related by blood.

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