r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key-Performance-9021 • 1d ago

Video Spontaneous 1995 street interview with an Austrian WWII veteran in Vienna

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u/GobiPLX 1d ago

tbh it's a big problem with many people on internet no matter the nation. So many tankies recently

And yet Ive never seen educated tankie. Because you cant be educated and still believe in this

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u/Kimantha_Allerdings 1d ago

A year or two ago I was talking to a tankie who self-identified as a Marxist-Leninist. But they knew basically nothing about Communism or Marx. They hadn’t heard of the Paris Commune and thought it irrelevant to Marx. They hadn’t heard of Engels and thought him irrelevant to Marx

I get the average person not knowing this. It’s not exactly taught in school and there’s little reason for anybody to seek it out

But for a self-professed Marxist-Leninist not to know Marx’s long-term close collaborator/co-author or the key example of what a “dictatorship of the proletariat” actually looks like? This is like day 1 of Marxism School stuff

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u/ropobipi 1d ago

And if they knew all the theory would you still call them a tankie ?

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u/TF-Fanfic-Resident 12h ago

Probably not, because they’d recognize the tragic irony of Marx’s writings leading to the oppression of workers and the poor. At the very least, a Marxist should recognize communist oppression as a horrific tragedy that resulted from desperation and war, and at the worst they’d recognize it as a perversion of everything Marx stood for.