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a drawing of a person wearing a balaclava and holding a gun with the text "all my homies hate tankies" :3

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

I don’t agree with the vision of an authoritarian state, even as a step towards something else, but my tankie friends, for example those in PSL, are doing a ton of good on the ground by organizing and funding busses to prison for the families of prisoners, helping support tenant unions, providing support for immigrants in the form of legal representation, continuously organizing against police injustices (especially in cases involving disabled, black, or queer people), and other issues that might arise in their locale. I respect the people continuously putting themselves and their resources on the line for others. I would be much quicker to lend disrespect to those that only talk and do nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Are they doing this to support the organization of a politburo and a direct line of authority from a single charismatic leader at the top? Do they make apoligistic statements for human injustices and advocate for the expansion of borders through war?

Otherwise they're just communists doing rad communist shit and you should labor to help them organize and shoulder their burdens.

I think there is a general misconception of communists especially here in the US and it's been a problem in leftist circles for a while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Those people dont sound like tankies.

Tankies are authoritarian, and unions are the opposite of that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

PSL is marxist-leninist in ideology and doing all the activities I described. Perhaps way in the future I will have to fight with them, but for now we align on many issues and work side by side. Don’t allow propaganda to paint too broad of strokes.

[–] bdonvr 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What lmao? The people who you call tankies are aggressively pro union. Find me a "tankie" site that thinks otherwise.

And you would call the PSL tankies. Here's a Wikipedia excerpt from their page:

International affairs

PSL calls for a 90% cut to the military budget of the United States, the closure of all overseas military bases, and a halt of US aid to Israel.

PSL supports the Worker's Party of North Korea. PSL describes North Korea as a "communist government" and North Korea as "one of the few top-to-bottom, actually-existing, alternatives to the global capitalist system". PSL has defended North Korea's human rights record against criticism by the United Nations, which it calls "thinly veiled justification for U.S. aggression toward North Korea", and argues that "conditions in North Korea are vastly better than those in other developing countries". PSL supports North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

PSL supports the Communist Party of China, criticizing only Chinese economic reforms into a "market socialist economy". PSL argues that "militant political defense of the Chinese government" is necessary to stave off "counterrevolution, imperialist intervention and dismemberment". PSL defends China's human rights record, and strongly denies that the People's Liberation Army massacred peaceful student protestors in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. PSL denies that China has suppressed democracy in Hong Kong. PSL has praised the 1950–1951 annexation of Tibet and defended the status of Human Rights in Tibet under the administration of China, claiming that "progress made [since the annexation] has revolutionized life for Tibetans."

PSL supported the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. PSL did not support the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but blamed the invasion on NATO and the United States. In its statement on "Russia's military intervention", PSL highlighted the "plight of ethnic Russians [...] in the Donbas", Russia's "legitimate security concerns", and NATO's "provocative behavior".

PSL opposes US intervention in the Syrian Civil War, and has generally been supportive of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Russian military efforts in Syria. PSL denies that the Syrian government used chemical weapons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Your friend is a asshole, and not a leftist. Your friend wants me dead for being an anarchist. Your friend loves Russia stealing land and children from Ukraine. Your friend denies and genocide not committed by a western country. Fuck all tankies, especially your friend :3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh no, someone fell for tankie memes rather than talking to a tankie and learning what their deal is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

If someone calls themselves a tankie and they dont understand where the term tankie comes from, theyre either not telling the truth or are not worth talking to hecause they dont understand their own ideology.