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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 7 hours 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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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

that friends sounds more like bourgeois, oligarchy than a leftist. kinda like how "hasan" pretends to be a leftist on his streams, hes a grifter.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Nah, he’d have us all up against the wall immediately…I don’t doubt his conviction.

Meh…no…my example was exactly nothing like Hassan. You don’t understand anything about leftism if you believe seeking or having wealth disqualifies you.