This is something I always get in arguments about, whenever I use the word tankie hexbear and grad users argue that its just a term for socialists.

I’ve always just used it to referr to authoritarian communists, i.e, people who unironically support modern russia, and/or oppose ukraine, and think nothing happened to the uyghurs.

      • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
        3·
        28 days ago

        It isn’t close to, it is the no true Scotsman fallacy.

        Communism (from Latin communis, ‘common, universal’) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in society based on need. A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state (or nation state).

        Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a libertarian socialist approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers’ self-management, and an authoritarian socialist, vanguardist, or party-driven approach under a socialist state, which is eventually expected to wither away.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        1·
        28 days ago

        “No true Scotsman” is about redefining a term to suit the argument, not that purity tests or gatekeeping are inherently illegitimate.

        • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          21·
          28 days ago

          Yeah. If they call the current state of China with literal billionaires, communist, then they aren’t communist in any economically defined sense of the world