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Tankie=Authoritarian Leftists.
Many of us have no problems with socialism or the theory of communism. But all current examples, such as China or Russia, are of Authoritarian regimes with a history of human rights violations from genocide to suppression of free press and free speech and deserving of criticism as such
I for one would love to see the fall of capitalism in my lifetime, but not at the sacrifice of the rights of privacy, freedom of speech and many others
Authoritarians are by definition not part of the left. Tankies are fascists with a red coat of paint.
That doesn’t change though, that those tankies usually identify themselves as some flavour of leftist while praising/apologizing stalin, mao, kim jong, putin, xi jinping, etc. in the same sentence. While you might say they’re no true leftists, they would very much disagree.
Red fascist ideology is about building a hierarchy, specifically an ideological hierarchy, which is mutually exclusive from the leftist position of deconstructing hierarchies.
The Nazis described themselves as national socialists. They were lying. So are tankies.
I think that's maybe Noam Chomsky's POV? He talked about Leninism being a right wing deviation in a video. Interesting stuff.