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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People still be calling Russia communist even though the Soviet Union famously fell under Boris Yeltsin

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

... and people calling themselves communist still leaping to its defence, for some inexplicable reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah I don’t get that one either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s more the idea that a lot of communists have that “anything that challenges American global hegemony = automatically good.”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Colloquially referred to as "Tankies". America = Bad, therefore Not America = Good mostly sums up Tankie takes, but more properly Tankies is a pejorative for authoritarian communists, usually apologists for China and the CCP nowadays. IIRC originally it referred to communist parties in Western countries that excused Soviet actions during the Prague Spring and such, although I'd say that is an obsolete term.