• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Do they actually consider themselves a significant enough population to even bother courting? “People further left from the democrats” is a fairly small group already, tankies are a thankfully small subset of that.

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      1 year ago

      They aren’t really far left though when they support fascist regimes.

      • Throwaway@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Tankies are still lefft wing, communism is left wing.

        Fascism seems to appear everywhere on the spectrum.

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          1 year ago

          Fascism is distinctly right wing. Tankies are totalitarian, fascists are also totalitarian.

          Communism isn’t totalitarian. However, every communist that’s gained power becomes a totalitarian or supports totalitarianism.

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            1 year ago

            Also, if every communist regime is totalitarian, at what point does it become part of communism? In any case, I think there needs to be a disctinction between “communism the theory” and “communism the practice”

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            1 year ago

            Let me rephrase, fascism as the word is currently used is found everywhere in the economic spectrum.

            We aren’t talking about 1930s Italy.

        • YeetPics@mander.xyz
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          1 year ago

          That’s how they want to be viewed, but that game is as thin as Vin diesels hair (in fast&furious 2 I mean)

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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      1 year ago

      a little unrelated, but I don’t use left-right, mainly because of how my country handles democracy