Whats up with rusky propaganda accounts lately
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Communists tend to critically support the Russian Federation, and Lemmy was created by communists, so there are a lot of communists here.
*tankies tend to support the Russian federation
What's your point? I already said communists tend to critically support the Russian Federation.
Tankies != communists
What do you think a tankie is? What's a communist? Tankie is, as I understand it, just a pejorative for communists, so if you can help elaborate on what you think these terms mean we might be able to come to an understanding. I consider myself to be a communist, for what it's worth.
I do aswell (maybe), imo Tankies are communists who believe that the acts of historical communist dictatorships are/were justified, and glorify war and esp communist russia & china
See, this is where I disagree a decent bit. "Tankie" isn't just used against communists, it's used against anarchists, even liberals. The main connecting string is defense of existing socialist states, like the aforementioned PRC and USSR. This defense does not mean that tankies believe that the allegations of the Red Scare are both true and justified, there's usually a large disconnect between perspectives on what actually happens in socialist states and what we receive in (presumably) the west. Glorification of war is not something I can say I've seen, outside of I suppose some communists liking soviet military gear.
If I were to give my own definition of what constitutes a tankie, I'd say it's anyone who defends existing socialist states, past or present. Those socialist states are generally understood to be the USSR, PRC, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, DPRK, GDR, etc. The defense tankies give is not in accepting both bourgeois historiography as accurate but justified, but instead in directly combatting bourgeois historiography. Tankie is also a pejorative for these people, used to convey the strawman of the person that believes the lies of the Red Scare but believes them to be justified.
In that case, I am definitely a tankie. I spend a good deal of time talking about socialism both past and present, and arguing for how we can expand that movement and carry it to the future. I am definitely a defender of socialist states, I just don't believe the common allegations such as "100 million were killed by communism" are at all accurate. I don't think you'll find someone who believes the 100 million number but also thinks it's good and justified. These people do not exist, but it sounds like that's what you believe a tankie to be. Am I misunderstanding you?
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@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net & @Eldritch@piefed.world this is the actual context of the MeanwhileOnGrad post cm002 posted. It's extremely common for the folks on MoG to take out-of-context screen grabs, so I always recommend checking the actual source. Given that it's a stalker community with an unhealthy obsession with communists, I'd take what's posted there been less seriously.
@Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com no, I'm not paid by the Kremlin nor CPC, lmao. I'm just a communist, I work with a communist party and try to do my best to spread communist analysis and theory. It's as simple as that, no need to come up with outlandish conspiracy theories. If I was paid for this, I'd give significantly less of a fuck about it. I do it because I care, and want a better world.
I see, personally I find Tankies to be overall harmful to change, specifically the people who will defend that there are no problems with existing states, even the dprk and such
I haven't met anyone that thinks that there are no problems with existing socialist states. I think you see pushback against common liberal critique of socialist states as a belief that there's no socialist critique. Either way, "tankies" by the way I have described them are the only ones that have actually gotten change, be they the Cubans, soviets, Chinese, etc.
Spend like 5 mins scrolling on this community, the first post I saw said that China was not authoritarian, which is objectively untrue
"Authoritarianism" isn't objectively measured. In my view, all states can be considered authoritarian, as they all are monopolies on violence. Therefore, what matters more is which class controls that authority. In China, the working classes objectively control the state, so I can see why someone would laugh at claims of "Chinese authoritarianism" as the working classes in China have more freedom than those in the west. I'd still consider it to be "authoritarian," but a good kind, a working class kind.
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dehumanization, nice! so you can't believe anyone who's not rabidly racist against Russia and Russians is a human. Par for the course so far. Will you be engaging in homophobia next, as is your kind's other kneejerk response to information that challenges your preconcieved worldview? Or would you be projecting your propaganda fueled delusions on to us, which is another? I doubt you actually are willing to challenge your views.
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i will become a black supremacist
you're gonna have to type the n-word here right now for me to believe you, otherwise you'll prove yourself a liar as well as fascist. then again being a racist piece of shit like you are it shouldn't even feel problematic, right? go ahead, do it. you don't consider them humans anyhow, do you removed?