To explain what I mean. I noticed that while term "tankies" is accepted as a term to refer to communists (particularly communists that would defend use of tanks on civilians), today's tankies are also defending Russia which isn't communist anymore (it's more fascist than anything). Even those on lemmygrad. It feels like it never was about communism, but it always was about totalitarianism and Soviets.

[–] protist@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I struggle to understand lemmygrad. They advertise the instance as Marxist, but like you said they are reflexively pro-Russia and call you a western pig if you try to point out that Russia is also capitalist and not even remotely Marxist

[–] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I found many users there unable to distinguish between capitalism itself as a system, authoritarian and corpocratic political systems, and individuals who live within those systems.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I think it's mostly kids from the US who realise their government is lying to them and has been for a long while, so they just flip the binary switch and see everything the exact opposite way.

[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I would like to see an example of that, because my experience there so far is so completely removed from this that I don’t understand where do people get these takes from

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They literally have a tank in their banner.

A minute of searching lead me here. Just read the comments.

Edit: or this. Literally defending Stalin.

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