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Are you a 'tankie' (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I keep seeing this instance is overrun with tankies so hey, lets do an informal survey like I've seen on hexbear

respond with YES or NO in the first line of your comment and i'll tally everything in a couple of days, lets say I'll try and collect everything on the sunday the 9th (10+gmt sorry)

not sure thisll work, be nice, have fun

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To clear definitions, at least for me"tankies" are a subset of communists, who praises/defends the actions of all/most communist states far more than similar actions from capitalist states. The difference between communists and tankies is a bias in favor of communist states when looking at things like human rights violations. Very few people will self identify as a tankie, since it's hard to see your own bias.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So Tankies are just Communists sympathetic towards other Communists? What would a non-tankie Communist look like?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Supporting communism's ideas, while still fairly condemning terrible things done by historical attempts at implementing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

What constitutes "fairly?" Maybe because I am on Lemmy.ml and thus can see Hexbear and Lemmygrad, I don't think I've seen many people genuinely refusing to condemn horrible or tragic events within Communist countries or by Communists. Perhaps a vast minority, but at that point, why is this even an issue in the first place?

Are there examples of "good" Communists that aren't tankies that you can point me to?