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minus-squareWaxedWookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up39arrow-down4·2 years agoLook at how much they care about worker enfranchisement in the totalitarian regimes they idolise. They’re just red fascists.
minus-squareApollolinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down6·2 years agoFascist =/= authoritarian. People use the words interchangeably but they mean specific things. North Korea for example is authoritarian but not facist.
minus-squareWaxedWookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·2 years agoTankies tend to point to the USSR, China, and DPRK - I’d argue all of them fit Umberto Eco’s widely used definition of fascism pretty well. In this context, it’s a distinction without a difference. What difference does this even make?
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI can’t address that because idk what they think about it.
Look at how much they care about worker enfranchisement in the totalitarian regimes they idolise.
They’re just red fascists.
Fascist =/= authoritarian.
People use the words interchangeably but they mean specific things. North Korea for example is authoritarian but not facist.
Tankies tend to point to the USSR, China, and DPRK - I’d argue all of them fit Umberto Eco’s widely used definition of fascism pretty well.
In this context, it’s a distinction without a difference. What difference does this even make?
I can’t address that because idk what they think about it.