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Mocking capitalism is not extremism in most of the world. Even the pope shits regularly on current capitalism.
Left and anti-capitalism are 2 different things. And most people in Lemmy are blandly criticizing current turbo capitalism, which is left, center, right... Not everyone who oppose capitalism, particularly in our current form, is extreme left. And most of the posts I see here are not really anti-anticapitalism, mainly pro regulated capitalism (unions and regulations), which in Europe for instance are center left position.
What you guys call tankies are indeed extremes.
I can't say I have definitive data on that but when I look at the front page which includes everything that is federated by lemm.ee, I see tankie posts often and people are mostly in agreement. Something like this I would call tankie, and I see one of those everyday, maybe every two days.
I'm not saying that anti capitalist things are extreme on their own. But when it's mixed with the tolerance of overtly extreme memes makes you extreme. I'll ask again, what if it was the case for a right wing ideology? What if that meme said something like "But Zoe, the Jews are taking all the wealth and will not stop voluntarily." Would the existence of that hypothetical meme not make that community extremist? If it was just that meme on its own then fuck it, it's just edgy shock value stuff. But when the community is always slanting on one side, the meme has a more serious connotation.
Is that considered tankie? I know it's pro revolutionary socialism, which is typically what the countries tankies like did to start out.
When I think 'tankie' I usually think people who are still pro those countries to the point of denial about genocides and other bad things those countries are doing.
Yeah maybe not exactly tankie but I think it's close enough. The meme is still extremist since these people would probably kill any remaining capitalist in their imagined revolution.
yeah, fair enough.
Tankie doesn't mean anything
There's plenty of Nazi and alt-right social media or even Lemmy instances you can go to if you want to avoid leftists. But one or two leftist instances pop up and suddenly the world's ending. Maybe this is a good way to discover which side of the left-right spectrum you favor?
Personally, I'd rather err on the side of leftism. At least their goals are noble.
I think you are replying to the wrong comment