The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

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[–] 12 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

Wait…pretty sure contemporary Russia is CINO and even then just barely as they’ve gone capitalist in the ‘90s. I could understand the pedantics if it was expressly the USSR (Don’t agree with it, as an anarchist obvs, but still) or “critical support” for China, but here-and-now Russia?

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Always has been 🌍👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

    Communism is classless and stateless. Somehow I find it hard to believe when the political class from a given state says they're communist.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    strangely you would think they welcome anarchy, but they dont.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Well yes if communism was actually their goal. The problem with these revolutions is that they never actually end. And they try to govern via revolution as well. All change to the revolution becomes counter-revolution and therefore the enemy. Ultimately making their goal their enemy.

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