I’m fine with communists. My economical political views could be considered communist, too
Calling Communists “tankies” makes me doubt this.
But tankies defending russian wars of aggression, relativizing Stalin and labeling every political view they don’t like as liberals is just annoying.
Can you provide specific examples?
And while not every user on hexbear or lemmy.ee is a tankie, most tankies you see are on these instances.
What is a “tankie” to you? All Marxist-Leninists? Defenders of AES?
Not just that, but some of the loudest voices do more harm than good for leftism.
Yep, “left” anticommunists are a known phenomena propped up by the US state department.
I’ve been wondering if a certain instance (not threads, a whole other discussion) might be more used than other instances, because I’ve also noticed a marked difference in discussion and tone. I’m well aware a lot of it can be explained away by more users coming and my own understanding becoming more informed. It just seems more cacaphoneous now.
Honestly I’m more worried about those who claim to be communists but do things that both go against the tenets of communism and make other communists look bad. Tankies are a subset of that.
