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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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My new favorite hobby is calling tankies bad-faith imperialist shills and implying they're not communist enough (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tankies go out of their way to defend an absolute hereditary monarchy just because the Kim Dynasty says they are communist, defending China is nothing in comparison. They are the same kind of idiots as the ones that fell for the "Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei" (socialist workers party) part of the NSAPD's (aka Nazi party) name.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

North Korea isn't a monarchy. It's a necrocracy. Officially the first Kim is still leader, despite being dead.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a theocracy with extra steps

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It basically is.

Weird mix between Fascism, and Theocracy.

Interesting read on this:

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters is a 2010 book by Brian Reynolds Myers. Based on a study of the propaganda produced in North Korea for internal consumption, Myers argues that the guiding ideology of North Korea is a race-based far-right nationalism derived from Japanese fascism, rather than any form of communism. The book is based on author's study of the material in the Information Center on North Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cleanest_Race

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It has layers, like onions, and green ogres.