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Tankie is when they correlate the industrial growth of USSR as success when every other nation transitioning into a bourgeoise republic had similar growth
Tankie is when they pick and choose traits of Stalin and refuse the facts of his authoritarianism
Tankie is when they ignore the lack of progress in communism in USSR after Lenin died
Tankie is when they make excuses for the failures of USSR by pining them all in the west
The differences being that the USSR uplifted everyone equally and not just a capitalist few; and that it developed without abusing imperialism and unequal exchange against the global south (and actually contributed the most to emancipatory movements and was key in the decolonisation of the 20th century and as a reference for worker movements in the west to push for further rights).
Tankie is when they reject the big-man understanding of history and instead analyze the material and historical conditions of a particular era.
Tankie is when they point to the doubling of life expectancy in the Soviet Union and the only case of industrialisation of a country in history together with China that happened since the 20th century, excluding subsidised US colonies such as South Korea or Japan.
Tankie is when you understand that an imperfect but emancipatory movement which surmounted extreme odds, is desirable over the continuation of imperialism
Sorry to hear you got scratched
What a clever, pithy response. Not like you could address the actual content of the comment because... Well you know.
There was no content to the comment, just a selection of meaningless assertions.
How, exactly, were any of them meaningless? They're statements describing the views of actual people (and a lot of them are here).
Because they're completely baseless assertions.
How are they baseless? I think of the tankies I've known over the years and these assertions fit them perfectly. They do exactly all of these things, its like they have a script. I spent a good amount of time around tankies in college and they would regularly get into dumb arguments with the communists and anarchists about literally each one of the things listed.