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It's only okay when MY favorite country does it. (lemm.ee)
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[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 20 points 8 months ago

It's very simple. "Authoritarian Communists"

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies.

The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Sorry, I must be the dumbest person who ever tried to be a leftist.

So the first guy criticized libs (seems like the answer is fox news type libs) and then I asked him to clarify and another person replied saying he means not-tankies (so leftists that aren't neolibs/or just communists maybe?). At that point the first guy replies saying he knows what tankie means and that the other guy actually doesn't. That's when I replied again.

Now it seems like you (and voters) are saying the guy that replied to me was in fact correct in his usage meaning she didn't guy's actually a tankienor maybe a conservative? I get lost there. Surely the first guy isn't an authoritarian communist. Like what? Someone help!

I just want to communicate with other political junkies and nerds that want to fight capitalism... someday, somebow.

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