• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    23 days ago

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

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      23 days 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.