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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by stinky@anarchist.nexus to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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After seeing a megathread praising Mao Zedong, an actual mass killer, and a post about a guy saying "99% of westerners are 100000000000% sure they know what happened in 'Tiny Man Square' [...] the reasons for this are complex and involve propaganda [...]," I am genuinely curious what leads people to this belief system. Even if propaganda is involved when it comes to Tiananmen Square, it doesn't change the atrocities that were/are committed everywhere else in China.

I am all for letting people believe what they want but I am lost on why one would deliberately praise any authoritarian system this hard.

Can someone please help me understand why this is such a large and prominent community? How have these ideals garnered such a following outside of China?

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who has responded! This thread has been very insightful :)

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[–] Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 points 1 week ago

I like your take, but i feel like, though it is clearly legitimate to criticize the unfairness between how we treat auth comm regimes and occidental ones, saying "USSR is good, we should do like them in our countries" won't bring the bomb / military budget down. It just will change the target of the weapons, not their use or production. And at least in my experience here in France, people pushing for less militarization are clearly the one despising state communism, while the remnants of state communists support our war economy.