Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoCommunists and fascists are diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive. Communists fight for the working classes, to collectivize all production and distribution to suit the needs of all. Fascists apply the methods of colonialism domestically in order to entrench capitalists and kill off labor organizers. Equating the two originated as a form of Holocaust trivialization called Double Genocide Theory.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Communist ≠ tankie
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
“Tankie” is a pejorative for those who support existing socialist states, it’s essentially a pejorative for communists.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No that’s not true
RiverRock@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It fully is
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s 100% true.
hitwright@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tankie is a term for anti US campist, that chooses to ignore crimes againt humanity by other Imperialistic nations. (China, Russia)
Historically used against socialists, but the term gained another meaning
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Neither China nor Russia are imperialist, though. “Tankie” is used against those supportive of socialist states, which also overwhelmingly includes people that don’t believe Russia or China are imperialist.
mattyroses@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
It’s just coincidence that it’s used against all communists then?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
all communists? That’s a very big sample size
mattyroses@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
OK chief, let’s try it easier. What actual communists that have existed are not tankies, according to you?
Because my library socialist/ Titoist ass is called one constantly for saying such radical things as “the US shouldn’t be excused for their constant war crimes”.