How would you rate the main "tankie" ideologies?
On a scale of 1 (meaning least bad) to 10 (the most evil), how would you rate the following?
Leninism (as in basic Leninism), Maoism, Stalinism, Nazbol (National-bolshevism), Titoism, Trotskyism, Ho-Chi Minh thought, Dengism, Xi Jinping Thought, Fidelismo, Khmer Rouge, Juche, Jiang Zemin ("Too simple, sometimes naive.")
You don't need to rate all of them if you are unfamiliar with it.
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Posadism 10/10 for style
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I would probably put it at a 9 in terms of evil since Posadas said there must be a global nuclear war for communism to happen. 10 is reserved for ideologies who support perpetual suffering such as Khmer Rogue.
Problem is that most if not all (online) tankies have only a very limited, sketchy idea of what those actually are.
Another problem is that you list ideologies, i.e. somewhat theoretical stuff, but how does that relate to the actual atrocities? I don't think Stalinism says "go and kill millions of dissidents".
Isn't that the main problem with tankies, that they defend indefensible tyrannies because to them they are identical to the ideologies?
Even tankies have varying degrees of evil. From spying on opposition to straight up genocide.
It's not as if they are as homogenous as Juche followers.
I mean, we're obviously going to put Nazbols and Khmer Rouge on the far end of the 10 side for harm to the common good. The Trotskyists I've known have been fairly chill, but still worth being somewhat wary of. Maoists tend to be zealous and dogmatic, and of the ones I've encountered, tend to be the most derogatory and antagonistic when it comes to inclusion of non-statist/anarcho-communists.