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CIA deputy director’s son killed while fighting for Russia in Ukraine, investigation claims
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I'd say it's the stages before communism. When the authoritarians have to take all the power to give it to the people. The problem is that is impossible. Once the authoritians have taken all the power, they never give it up. So real communism doesn't exist and can never exist because it always requires some type of revolution and central organization after the effects of the revolution. And that central power will never give up that power.
So just because they haven't reached "true" communism doesn't mean they are all of a sudden now on the "far-right".
Today's tankies are still considered far-left.
That's because of corruption. As of now communism to be implemented requires authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is the main reason why communism is bad.
Currently both, tankies as well as far right don't really care about socialism (if tankies cared about socialism they wouldn't support China or Russia). All they are supporting is authoritarianism.
What far right labels as far left (in US at least) are people who support liberal democracy with protections and safety nets for working class. The "most radical" Bernie Sanders is exactly for that.
There might be actual communist parties in Europe, they hardly have any support.
Why would you depend on the far right for any kind of accurate definition? Bernie is not far left in reality. He is center left.
Ok, then it looks like we are on the same page on that.
Though, seeing tankies support Russia and China tells me they don't care about social aspects of communism, so the only thing left is authoritarianism.
The term might be even more appropriate now as it originates, because they basically supported using tanks against the population to squash Hungarian Uprising. A totally authoritarian move.
At that point there's not much difference between them and today's far right. I mean tankies will openly say they support communism, but their actions shows that's not what they are truly after.
To me it looks like tankies were product of Soviet propaganda while MAGA is a product of Russian propaganda, and that's why they both share so many common views.