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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by stinky@anarchist.nexus to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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After seeing a megathread praising Mao Zedong, an actual mass killer, and a post about a guy saying "99% of westerners are 100000000000% sure they know what happened in 'Tiny Man Square' [...] the reasons for this are complex and involve propaganda [...]," I am genuinely curious what leads people to this belief system. Even if propaganda is involved when it comes to Tiananmen Square, it doesn't change the atrocities that were/are committed everywhere else in China.

I am all for letting people believe what they want but I am lost on why one would deliberately praise any authoritarian system this hard.

Can someone please help me understand why this is such a large and prominent community? How have these ideals garnered such a following outside of China?

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who has responded! This thread has been very insightful :)

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can I ask you your feelings on authoritarianism?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it's good for the working classes to wield the state against capitalists, fascists, landlords, sabateurs, etc. and a bad thing for those groups to wield state power against the working classes.

[–] Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And whats your opinion on Russia invading Ukraine?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I think it's bad that the west installed a Banderite regime in 2014, and that said Banderite regime killed 13,000 civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk for seceding from the new far-right government. The whole war was avoidable, and the best way for it to end is for Kiev to cede the 4 oblasts that already voted to join the Russian Federation, that way Ukrainians don't have to die for wealthy US capitalists and Ukrainian compradors and the people of the Donbass can exist in peace in the country they voted to join.