• @LazyPhilosopherOP
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    38 months ago

    What does tankie mean to you? Genuine question I promise. This is what I see when I Google the term.

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      8 months ago

      Generally, tankies are individuals who advocate for authoritarian regimes while claiming both they and the regimes are leftists. These regimes usually include russia, china, or North korea. Communism is a classless, moneyless, stateless society. Every single country that tankies usually advocate for fails in every single one of these criteria, and so I do not believe it is useful to refer to them as communists.

      These definitions may be flawed, but they are what I am currently using, which was the question.