• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    In what way would you classify the Chinese or Russian governments that these tankies support “communist?” That’s like believing that Nazis were a socialist party simply because that word is in the name.

    • Soggy@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Well that’s easy, I don’t. Looking at the actions of Putin or Xi Jinping and saying “this is a communist state that I fully endorse” doesn’t make sense to me. But I think there’s a lot of people that look at those countries through the historical lens and resonate with the aspirations and ideals of Marx and Lenin and other political thinkers of the era and get wrapped up in the association. And America has made it really easy to bash America, that tends to land you among modern and historical rivals.