Kay I need to ask, how does Lemmy use tankie? I've always thought it meant people who are willing to use violence against capitalist. I have a feeling I'm wrong.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago

Tankie is someone who thinks that Mao (and modern CCP) and Stalin were super alright people who did nothing wrong.

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AFAIK a tankie is someone who is a fan of authoritarian communism or socialism… I forget which but the key part is the authoritarianism part, I think.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, they're fans of the so-called "communism" of authoritarian countries like China and the USSR, which are about as communist as the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is democratic or a republic.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Okay, gotcha. Tankie == historical communist. Tankie =/= neosocialist.