Fox News has been blindingly accusing the Democrats (or anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan, really) of being Marxists for so long that they forgot it's an actual word with an actual meaning.
I have to say that I feel like the Chinese Revolution of 1949 has been utterly betrayed and sold out. Things used to be great. Now? A Marxist-Leninist? Truly dark and unprecedented times in China. I supported them until now, I can’t support Extremism smh Free TaibetJiang
Pack it up guys, gals, and everyone in between, some lib slammed poor Xi with a verbal accusation that he is what he has always been. Communism will never recover. China will collapse tomorrow.
Since Xi is not really a proponent of military interventions in allied states I wouldn't call him a tankie. Maybe the coming reunification will change my mind but until then I refuse to grant him that valor.
I'll explain: the Comunist ideology is like one the big religions - there are lots of breakaway groups who sometimes even hate each other more than they hate everybody else.
So Xi is supposed to be a Maoist Communist and he just got called a Marxist-Leninist, about as insulting as calling a Catholic in Northern-Ireland a "Protestant".