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cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 4 days agoIt is just that there are lots of tankies on lemmy.ml and they worship Russia, China and the DPRK to an unimaginable degree where if you critize any of their actions they start ragequitting I asked mainly out of curiuosity. Sorry for bothering.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
That isn’t the case, though. Communists don’t worship the Russian Federation, PRC, or the DPRK, and often do criticize them. The difference, is that communist critique is usually better informed both from a theoretical perspective, as we understand communist theory and history better, and from a practical perspective due to this study.
My comment was quite literally defending the DPRK against allegations of maintaining a pedophile sex ring for state officials, on the basis of said allegations being baseless and extraordinary evidence of the propaganda industry against the DPRK. This is often framed as dogmatic, uncritical support, or “worship” as you call it, but as we can both see I spent a good deal of time researching the topic of propaganda on the DPRK, its place in the world, and what it’s actually like. Thus, by many standards, this makes me a “tankie,” though I disagree with the notion that my analysis is dogmatic, unjustified, or otherwise akin to “worship.”