I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

  • southsamurai
    49•1 year ago

    Generally, they aren’t marxists, they’re “tankies”. And even fairly extreme socialists tend to dislike that. That’s lemmygrad.

    Hexbear is just filled with trolls that federated specifically to troll and disrupt the rest of lemmy in the name of their beliefs.

    On either, you can find individuals that are perfectly cool to talk to. But it’s like rolling the dice where only snake eyes win. And, even when you win, you can’t be certain that it isn’t a long troll waiting to fuck with you because some of them do that too.

    • @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
      16•1 year ago

      Sounds like Lemmy’s version of r/atheism 10+ years ago. Atheism itself is fine, but the sub became an insufferable circle jerk.

    • @Radicalized
      15•1 year ago

      “Tankie” is a term that’s applied to literally any communist. I’ve heard it used against Trotskyists and fucking social democrats.

      So, what’s actually the problem with them? Are they Maoists? CPC apologists?

      • static
        24•1 year ago

        They like Stalin, Putin , Xi and Kim. And defend everything they do.

        Like WTF? How can a communist defend putin!?

          • static
            11•1 year ago

            Visit a few Ukraine threads, it’s one of the topics the fanatics pile on.
            My point was that tankies are a “special” subset of communists.

            • @BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tfEnglish
              5•1 year ago

              I have. I’ve still never seen it. What I do constantly see in those threads is dehumanization of Russian people and calls for mass genocide of them, though. Calling them orcs and talking about how they all deserve to die.

              I don’t believe you, to be honest. One can acknowledge Russian security concerns (like multiple U.S. military officials and many high members of the UN have) without praising Putin. And I’ve still never seen a single communist say anything good about Putin. On any website.

      • magnetosphere
        8•1 year ago

        People who throw the word “tankie” around indiscriminately aren’t using it right. From what I’ve seen, it applies specifically to extreme communist fanboys who are apologists for communist militarism. For example, Tankies will say that the Tiananmen Square massacre was either justified or didn’t happen.

        Just being a fan of communism doesn’t make someone a tankie.

        Edit: see below for an excellent example