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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?
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I too am looking forward to 90% good info with 10% really questionable shit. Actual tankies (not the "leftist I don't like" variety) remind me of the type of movies where the grandkids find their amazing, sweet grandparents are actually secret cannibals or clowns. Maybe both.
I'm totally on board, then the authoritarian, murdery shit comes out.
the thread has amassed almost 600 comment on db0 a lot of tankies tellinn their story, go check it out ๐
Hoooooly shit you weren't kidding!
Y'all defederated peeps are sure missing on valuable insights like "95% of Chinese citizens like China"
It's true, and repeatably above 90%. Central government approval is higher than local government or provincial government though, but those are still overwhelmingly positive.
I mean to me it was shocking to find out that such a vast majority of the people preferred the SU and expressed their support in an official referendum months before the dissolution. That the dissolution therefore was completely against the will of the people.
Similar sentiments about china apply, where we are told that it is a grey dystopian state that needs to keep a close guard from it's citizens, lest their unhappiness spill into counter-revolution, when in fact most of its citizens are fairly happy with their lifes the way it is. And actually have a positive outlook on the future? When was the last time someone expressed similar sentiments in the west?
So I would absolutely classify it as a valuable insight.
It's also a valuable insight that authoritarian regimes like USSR and China can just disregard the will of their own populace when it fits their interests. Should probably be point of out what an abject failure states are and what a farce it is to defend red states as "the will of the people"
Right, I don't think that comes as news to anyone who has heard about US healthcare. The fact that the people however wanted a vanguard party, that people aren't just desolate and downtrodden under communism but actually hopeful about the future was extremely insightful news to me.
People can be happy about monarchies. Monarchies are still fucking bad!
Ok? Still after years of hearing otherwise this kind of insight is what broke me out of capitalist propaganda.
I mean, I'm happy for you. All I say is, don't trade one propaganda for the next
Idk this lenin guy sounds pretty good to me (I'm reading State and Revolution rn)
Lenin wrote different things than what he actually did.