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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Cool. Now, let's start getting into whether communism is "extremism" or not, rather than just begging the question.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any talk of communism is a "red" herring when it comes to this topic. Russia isn't in any way officially, notionally, or superficially communist.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People still be calling Russia communist even though the Soviet Union famously fell under Boris Yeltsin

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

... and people calling themselves communist still leaping to its defence, for some inexplicable reason.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah I don’t get that one either.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s more the idea that a lot of communists have that “anything that challenges American global hegemony = automatically good.”

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

Colloquially referred to as "Tankies". America = Bad, therefore Not America = Good mostly sums up Tankie takes, but more properly Tankies is a pejorative for authoritarian communists, usually apologists for China and the CCP nowadays. IIRC originally it referred to communist parties in Western countries that excused Soviet actions during the Prague Spring and such, although I'd say that is an obsolete term.