• Mango@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Is anyone gonna explain “tankie”? I’ve got a kind of mental image but I’m certain imagery doesn’t really align from person to person.

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      11 months ago

      It gets misused a lot, but basically any socialist that supports authoritarian systems, or at least is on the “every criticism of the USSR is psyop” end of things.

      So if they’re simping for Stalin, probably a tankie.

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      11 months ago

      Hardcore Marxist-Leninists. The type that says “Stalin did nothing wrong”

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      Supporters of the Authoritarian left, those who want a dictatorship.