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

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    1 year ago

    Theoretically, they’re authoritarian leftists. In reality, leftism has little to do with it. They glorify former communist authoritatian countries and are anti-west no matter what the west does. There are pro-russia tankies (Lemmygrad.ml) and pro-china tankies (hexbear.net), with some overlap between them.

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      1 year ago

      Calling them left at all is playing into their game of self-legitimacy at best or trying to delegitimize actually leftism at worst.