• yata@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Your distinction is entirely pointless, because this has been the main critique of tankies since the term originated. Tankies are precisely not marxists, they are “tankies”, ie. in favour of authoritarianism over all else.

    And it is mainly just pure chance that they settled on pretending to be marxists because they could easily just have become fascists (which a non-surprising amount of them later actually become).

    • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      That’s how it always seems to me. They would support mafia rule or middle ages church rule, they aren’t really tied to ideals of Marxism but more to the idea of authority solving problems.