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Kick tankies out of 196 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (34 children)

I still don't understand what a tankie is

Edit: From what I gathered, they're essentially authoritarian communists

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago (17 children)

The type of "communist" that supports authoritarian, usually state capitalist regimes like the USSR, China, and the DPRK.

The lack of meaningful worker enfranchisement in any of those regimes should tell you all you need to know, really - they're red-coded fascist lunatics.

[+] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not trying to add water to an oil fire but Lenin himself categorized the USSR as state capitalist. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he and his people consider state capitalism to be a necessary step towards communism?

The state capitalism, which is one of the principal aspects of the New Economic Policy, is, under Soviet power, a form of capitalism that is deliberately permitted and restricted by the working class. Our state capitalism differs essentially from the state capitalism in countries that have bourgeois governments in that the state with us is represented not by the bourgeoisie, but by the proletariat, who has succeeded in winning the full confidence of the peasantry. Unfortunately, the introduction of state capitalism with us is not proceeding as quickly as we would like it. For example, so far we have not had a single important concession, and without foreign capital to help develop our economy, the latter’s quick rehabilitation is inconceivable.