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Why do Gezendong-style-tankies support Putin and Xi-Xinpin so much ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Why would communist support capitalists like Putin and Xi-Jinping which aren't better than Liberal-capitalists ?

I am all in for stopping liberal capitalism, but I am more interested in implementing a happinex index like Buthan than living in oligarch-capitalist-regime like Russia/China

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[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

because they are campists: if america bad, then everyone who opposes america good. support for land-grabbing nationalists like putin is one thing, but some even support iranian government