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I've seen tankies on Lemmy itself argue against the end-state of Communism as unrealistic. Not really sure that tankies are all that coherent.
For tankies, the end goal often is just the state capitalism. I knew countless of tankies, whose only problem with capitalist exploitation was that it wasn't done by the state, and almost always even regular exploitative capitalism was better than its alternatives, because work moralism. This lead many of them becoming conservatives.