Asking because some of them supported Cuba a few weeks ago but now Cuba is enemy #1 and the US just killed 32 Cuban officers who were directly defending Maduro as his personal guard.
It kinda seems like you can’t be an enemy of Venezuela and also a supporter of Cuba so like… Are there any states left that these self-identified leftists still support at all?
I see.
The thing is that there really aren’t any people that fit that. No really. That’s not a particularly common position among any communists at all. At most it occurs when a communist is particularly fed up with a person’s behaviour as most conversations tend to occur in bad-faith and at that point they default to a sort of “fuck you stalin didn’t throw enough nazis in pits” sort of attitude.
For the majority of communists, Stalin is like, 70 good 30 bad. Similar situation with Mao, in fact that’s the official position of the CPC as well.
My experience with people throwing the word tankie around is they actually just tend to mean any communist, and when you ask them to clarify further the goalposts continually move around to a degree where basically any communist falls into the definition. That does not seem to be the case in your example, but I would argue that, generally speaking, you’re not anti-communist at all in any way because the “tankie” that you oppose is a boogie man that doesn’t actually exist outside of weird situations or examples of teens being teens.