• gxgx55@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sure, but the meme refers to the communities on the internet that unironically go full tankie, praising Stalin and Mao.

    Worst of all, tankies tend to inflitrate sane leftist spaces and slowly transform them. I’ve witnessed it many times, and that just makes me think that Marxists-Leninists are just the most dominant form of leftism on the internet, which is horrible.

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      1 year ago

      I think a lot of people give Mao a bad wrap.

      For what it’s worth, Stalin is a monster, and the state of China right now is repugnant.

      Mao didn’t intentionally lead tens of millions of people to starve in the same way Stalin did. Mao was trying to revolutionise agriculture (The Great Leap Forward) but didn’t understand the ecological and logistic principles required.

      I’m convinced his intentions were good, he just wasn’t educated enough to implement something like this.