• aski3252@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Originally, it was used to describe communists who followed the party line and supported suppressing Hungarian workers with tanks.

    Today it means ultra-authoritarian marxist-leninist.

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        It’s not entirely the same though. Some of the “tankies” in the West seem to be Maoists more than Stalinists, as far as I can tell. Besides, some (many?) Stalinists also consider the term “Stalinist” derogatory, and prefer to call themselves “Marxist-Leninists”.

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          Ok but let’s not pretend that either Marx or Lenin envisaged their form of communism as what Stalin was doing

          It’s no different to “free speech” suddenly meaning “free hate speech, but restricted speech on anything else”