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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (180 children)

Found the tankie.

Honestly What bullshit.

Tankie is a slur for authoritarian communists.

There is a healthy and honest way to appreciate communism, Russia, the CCP and even DPRK.

And then there are people who are completely shilling the CCP Russia DPRK as communist uptopias. These people are tankies.

If you are unable to recoginze the atrocities commited at any point in history, by the USA China, Russia , or any other country for that Matter. You're a chump.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (31 children)

There is a healthy and honest way to appreciate communism, Russia, the CCP and even DPRK.

Please tell us more about those healthy and honest "anti-authoritarian" non-tankie communists. Who are they and what political results have they made?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (30 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He set up Popular Revolutionary Tribunals to prosecute public officials charged with political crimes[12] and corruption, considering such elements of the state counter-revolutionaries.[15] This led to criticism by Amnesty International for human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions and arbitrary detentions of political opponents.[16]

idk sounds pretty authoritarian to me.

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

His country had corruption!

Im sure there is a better way but your acting like having tribunals makes you authoritarian.

It doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder if any other countries had to deal with corruption after the revolution... thinkin-lenin

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Statists using tribunals to try other statists is the use of state authority and the use of the state's monopoly on the legitimate use of force. If "Authoritarian" means anything at all then using the power of the state to prosecute people who are doing state stuff in ways you don't like is authoritarian.

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