• Zorque@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    You can call yourself a leftist without actually espousing ideals reflecting it.

    Tankies aren’t leftist, they’re leftist cosplayers.

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      8 months ago

      I actually watched recently a few videos on YT by Klim Zhukov (in Russian, naturally ; he’s a Tankie and a historian by education), and I’m not so certain.

      I may even agree than in some things they are more orthodox-Marxist than most western left movements.

      Now, by Tankies I mean Stalinists here.