An authoritarians only priority is their authority. Their economic leanings can flip on a dime depending on what’s convenient. So technically they are economically centrist by circumstance. But have never been meaningfully left in any sense.
I wouldn’t say this is due to simply being far-left. It may have started as such, but then they decided to subdue their political beliefs to geopolitics, and pursue geopolitical beliefs first and foremost. And those geopolitical beliefs favor a competition-minded worldview, a “might makes right” one, and a black’n’white perception. Tankies have just started being fanatic for one of the sides, almost being nationalists for another country, just like far-rightists.
they went so far left, they end up being on the right/autotharian.
An authoritarians only priority is their authority. Their economic leanings can flip on a dime depending on what’s convenient. So technically they are economically centrist by circumstance. But have never been meaningfully left in any sense.
I wouldn’t say this is due to simply being far-left. It may have started as such, but then they decided to subdue their political beliefs to geopolitics, and pursue geopolitical beliefs first and foremost. And those geopolitical beliefs favor a competition-minded worldview, a “might makes right” one, and a black’n’white perception. Tankies have just started being fanatic for one of the sides, almost being nationalists for another country, just like far-rightists.