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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  None of them are communists, they’re Tankies, tankies = authoritarians

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  • VinesNFluff@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think saying Tankies aren’t Communists is a bit like saying Sword Art Online isn’t an anime.

    Just because they suck doesn’t remove them from the category. In fact acknowledging the sucky parts of a <thing> is part of being grown up about that thing.

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    • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Communism is stateless and classless. How are STATES with authoritarian unanswerable leaders/classes in any way communist?

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      • kuato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        On the unlikely chance that the question isn’t rhetodical, I’d suggest Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds.

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      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        TBF there are different types of communism. Marxist, Leninist, State, Libertarian, etc… I don’t know enough about how they all decided to become all these sub-genres, but my basic take is that there’s communism, the kind where workers have the power and the distribution of goods and wealth is shared among society; and then there’s the communism that we all know, the authoritarian regime that controls the classes and distribution of goods and wealth.

        Personally I think the latter shouldn’t be called communism at all, it’s a completely different animal than the original idea, but IMO conservative politics have so thoroughly conflated tyrannical state control with communism, along with Stalin’s\Lenin’s authoritarian brutality claiming to be communism, that the two will never be separated.

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      • btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Communism is stateless

        This is propaganda comparable to the GOP wanting “smaller government” rather than authoritarian Fascism.

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well they’re more like Authoritarian “Communists”, the theory of communism doesn’t require human rights violations and restrictions of freedoms.

      But the only examples of communism in practice, and the only ones they praise and defend fervently, are places with authoritarian regimes like China.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

      Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.

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      • shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        the theory of communism doesn’t require human rights violations and restrictions of freedoms

        Communism is a political ideology predicated on murdering a group of political enemies in the name of a pseudoscientific economic theory which is given the same reverence that Catholics do to church dogma. Communism is, and always has been, a cult.

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    • shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whats wrong with SAO

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      • Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Its generic slop by anime standards. Like yeah anime is meant for teenagers and young adults so you can’t be too critical over fanservice or flat YA novel Gary sue tier character writing or forgetting to write an actually compelling reason for the villian trapping them in the digital world by he time its over.

        Anime in general is not meant to be high art but SAO goes the extra mile to be uninteresting bland slop that appeals to the lowest common denominator. The isekai genre has done a lot better over the decade since SAO initially released things like rezero blow it out if the water in terms of actually interesting plot and suspense.

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      • VinesNFluff@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Trash.

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