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"Stalin For World Peace", Communist Party of Great Britain march, 1936 (infosec.pub)
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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Surely over time though, the West should have largely come to understand that the situation with both Stalin and Mao wasn't really a communist issue, but more of an autocratic one, or variation thereof. I mean, sure, I can see why right-wingers in the McCarthy era (etc) very much wanted to maintain that fictional narrative for their own purposes, but...

Hmm, well, I guess the US as an imperialist power also found it highly useful to run with that as well so as to more easily meddle with other nations within its hemisphere. That's one national motivation, anyway. :S

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The term 'tankie' came about in the 1950s as it was increasingly seen by Western leftists as an authoritarianism issue in the Soviet Union and PRC, not just capitalist propaganda. Unfortunately, seeing as the Sovs and PRC were massive and funded Communist movements abroad with the expectation of orthodoxy, this led to many Western leftists being attacked from both sides - the Soviet-funded 'Communists' accusing them of being saboteurs and useful idiots for capitalism, and the ruling Western capitalists accusing them of being Soviet-style authoritarians playing PR games.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago

Interesting. Thanks for your time. A lot of that had not really been on my radar, and for some reason I thought the 'tankie' term came out of Tienanmen Sq, not the Hungarian Revolution. :o