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Agree with you in general, but I think a lot if people here are not really informed what differences there are materialistic ideologies.

Yes, Stalin bad.

But Guevara is not Stalin.

Marx is not che

Engels is not Marx

China is not communist.

Marxism is not materialism

Socialism is not communism

Also the amount of people bringing the "the 3 times people tried socialism were bad, so the whole ideology must be bad" argument are way to high IMHO.

How many times was capitalism tried? How many times it worked out? Is the USA a "functioning" state with all the oppression, racism, greed, invading other countries out of monetarian interest and environment destruction?

While I agree with you, that oppression is bad, no matter what the oppressor calls himself, we should talk about policies without resorting to dogmas and generalising people in favor of fear the hegemonic class is propagating to stay in power.

Based.

They already have lemmygrad.

Honestly, I don't think we need them here.

tankies more like no thankies

This comment section is really something uh

Thank fuck. I thought Lemmy was some ultra militant leftist hellhole before the shift.

I don't like extreme radical left any more than extreme radical right.

Fuck Che Guevara. Read a book.

I got banned from lemmygrad for saying acab means all cops lmao

there's literally a community called "moretankie196", they should go infest that one instead

Just removed like 40 comments and banned a buncha people.

finds social media developed by tankies

looks inside

finds tankies

fr I'm down with having a good old purge eventually but noone should be surprised

What are some good actual communist lemmy communities that aren't supporting the fucking capitalist imperialist russian invasion?

Can we have something like tankiejerk here? I seriously liked browsing that sub after a bad day with the red fashs.

Vaush moment

What's a tankie?

300 Comments already. Oh my god! Lol.

I have always wondered why it always says "Kick _" when she is punching instead of kicking. Lol.

How a lot of you sound

Honest question - what's a tankie? I feel like I've seen them mentioned a ton on Lemmy but I'd never heard the term prior to a few days ago. From the image it looks like a maga/skinhead combo?

Fair

This post has literally 6 times the comments of the next most-comments post, jesus. Wonder what could have triggered this!

Literally just made an account and am just a Reddit pleb. What exactly are tankies and what is 196? Guessing it's a Lemmy server but otherwise unsure

Why are Blanquists even in the Fediverse? The Fediverse is about decentralization while Blanquists are for the extreme opposite.

No

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I don't know what tankies are and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

When a leftist, or progressive says “tankie” it is different from what the mainstream media perceives. It (tankie) indicates someone who is overzealously supportive of non-Western imperialist countries such as Russia and China and denies their atrocities.

Also, the term developed from the tanks deplored by the user to invade Hungary and denote people who supported such action.

why?

It’s really cool optics to edit a anti-fascist image to be about “tankies”. Really shows the true alignment of you lot.