Tankies call themselves leftists but they’re more often than not, unknowingly Right Wing pawns because they marry their ideology to the policies of the Soviet Union and Communist China, and somehow forgot or never realized that present day Russia and China are not socialist countries, but oligarchic, kleptocratic right wing autocracies. and they will to this day, parrot Russian and Chinese Propaganda
Tankies call themselves leftists but they’re more often than not, unknowingly Right Wing pawns because they marry their ideology to the policies of the Soviet Union and Communist China, and somehow forgot or never realized that present day Russia and China are not socialist countries, but oligarchic, kleptocratic right wing autocracies. and they will to this day, parrot Russian and Chinese Propaganda
see also : Useful Idiot
Some people say horseshoe theory, I say Authoritarianism all looks the same when fully realized. Different gods, but same dogma.