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To clear definitions, at least for me"tankies" are a subset of communists, who praises/defends the actions of all/most communist states far more than similar actions from capitalist states. The difference between communists and tankies is a bias in favor of communist states when looking at things like human rights violations. Very few people will self identify as a tankie, since it's hard to see your own bias.
So Tankies are just Communists sympathetic towards other Communists? What would a non-tankie Communist look like?
Supporting communism's ideas, while still fairly condemning terrible things done by historical attempts at implementing it.
What constitutes "fairly?" Maybe because I am on Lemmy.ml and thus can see Hexbear and Lemmygrad, I don't think I've seen many people genuinely refusing to condemn horrible or tragic events within Communist countries or by Communists. Perhaps a vast minority, but at that point, why is this even an issue in the first place?
Are there examples of "good" Communists that aren't tankies that you can point me to?