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Most anglosphere communists I know have a term for such people: tankies.

And they hate them: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie

Maybe if you're talking about anglosphere 'communists' who follow people like Vaush online. Nothing communist about them.

No true Scotsman. V**sh is cursed/cringe/etc., but we can't exclude his fans from the label merely on the basis of his ideology being garbage/wrong/anglocentric.

We can exclude his fans on the basis that they don't believe what communists believe.

I am not talking about them. I am talking about people who are all about worker rights, unions and class struggle — you know — the things that are in the actual communist manifesto.

Whether that fits the people arround that "Vaush" — I don't know — but I can tell you as somebody who studied philosophy at a highly political campus, that the amount of communists who think the soviets (or china for that matter) are anything else than a failure is very low. A few of those strange people exist, but I wish the number of right wingers who think Hitler was a great guy was equally low.

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