Tankies aren’t leftists. They defend genocidal and authoritarian regimes, which are inherently right wing.
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HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 months agoTankies are far left authoritarians. The left/right spectrum refers primarily to economics.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 months ago
aidan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
which are inherently right wing.
Why?
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Tankies are leftist because the oppose private property and favor the state controlling the means of production rather than individuals or corporations.
You’re confusing authoritarian communism with social democracy and anarchism. Stalin was a leftist, he was also genocidal and authoritarian.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
There are political traditions that see the left/right spectrum as a “How hierarchical do you think society should be” question, where being sexist or intolerant of LGBT would be inherently right-wing because they’re positions that are advocating for forms of social hierarchies, and therefore would claim that an anarcho-capitalist, even if still right-leaning, is much less right-leaning than a nazi.
aidan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But where is the basis for defining it that way?
I think a more clear and commonly excepted interpretation would be basically more collectivist vs more individualistic. The issue with that for some people is that would make Nazism left wing, and nobody wants the bad guys on their side.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
It matches the historical usage of the terms. As far as I can tell the definition has barely changed in modern times; a lot of people have just tried to redefine them based on their own misunderstanding.