113
What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)

I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] redhilsha@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When a South Asian calls the British monarchy fascist or Churchill a genocider in my experience.

[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Isn't monarchy already a bigger bad word in itself than fascism?

[-] redhilsha@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Not according to the Yakubians over at the miserable island.

[-] anoriginalthought@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I actually always wondered a bit about the line between fascism and monarchism. To the casual observer they might seem nearly identical, though I wonder if in historical materialist terms it's a reactionary attempt to backslide to feudalism rather than progress capitalism to socialism.

[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Fascism doesn't necessarily have the hereditary property of monarchism. Power can easily get transferred to other families, not related by blood.

[-] wrestlingfan@onjase.quebec 1 points 2 months ago
[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Please expand upon that thought.

this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
113 points (93.1% liked)

Asklemmy

51698 readers
668 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS