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

  • Afata@lemmings.world
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    2 months ago

    No, the government of the southern half of Korea, the Republic of Korea, is not an “occupier.” The democratically elected state was the People’s Republic of Korea (PRK), which spanned the entire peninsula before the US Empire came in, declared it illegal, and split the country in two, against the will of Koreans, and installed the dictator Rhee Syngman in place.

    Cool, that happened decades ago though, who is currently running the SK government? A democratically elected body?

    Again, “tankie” in practice is just a pejorative for communists, akin to “pinko” or “commie.”

    No not really, I’m sure there are people around who throw the term around loosely, but the majority associate it with authoritarian communists

    The fact that you’re getting very basic communist stances on Korea completely wrong here betrays any sense of legitimacy you have on the subject.

    There was just a meme by one of you the other day where you declared the SK government as being illegitimate along with the government of Taiwan and Israel

    If you say the Government of SK is illegitimate then it’s an occupying government is it not?

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      1. The ROK has a liberal democracy, but it was forced on the people of southern Korea without their consent. The US Empire staffed it with prior compradors that were in power during Japanese colonialism. The ROK is currently a dictatorship of capital under a special class of people referred to as “chaebol,” under the occupation of the US Empire.

      2. All states are “authoritarian,” in that all states are means by which one class exerts its authority over the others. Communists support the working class being in charge of that authority, all communists (unless you count anarchists) support the use of the state against capitalists and fascists, and the majority of practicing communists support socialist states.

      3. I don’t like being referred to like “one of you.” I don’t care what they posted, I am explaining directly to you.

      4. The ROK essentially being a comprador government set up by a colonizer does not mean it’s occupying itself. The US Empire is occupying Korea, not the comprador government.