Theoretically, they're authoritarian leftists. In reality, leftism has little to do with it. They glorify former communist authoritatian countries and are anti-west no matter what the west does. There are pro-russia tankies (Lemmygrad.ml) and pro-china tankies (hexbear.net), with some overlap between them.
Calling them left at all is playing into their game of self-legitimacy at best or trying to delegitimize actually leftism at worst.
Theoretically, they're authoritarian leftists. In reality, leftism has little to do with it. They glorify former communist authoritatian countries and are anti-west no matter what the west does. There are pro-russia tankies (Lemmygrad.ml) and pro-china tankies (hexbear.net), with some overlap between them.
Calling them left at all is playing into their game of self-legitimacy at best or trying to delegitimize actually leftism at worst.
Pretty sure those are run by APTs.