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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?
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this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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Im a tankie because i want there to be clean water anywhere on earth in the future. We have less than 50 years to overthrow capitalism before the earth is a depleted cinder. Marxist Lenninist revolution has worked in the past. 2 out of 3 post WW2 superpowers arose from it. Anarchist success stories include... Rojava? For a while? If you ignore all the US support and how it fell apart without that. By the time the US is weak enough that it can be destroyed without the need for regimented party and military structures it will simply be much to late.
It's also quite telling that you squishily back away from "the tiananmen square massacre" but then gesture vaguely at some other unspecified crime. Parenti called what you have an unfalsifiable orthodoxy.
Clean water you say...
It's also quite telling that your answer became a "communism vs anarchism" out of nowhere.
The teams and labels are a fucking cancer of human society...
What is meant by "tankie" if not ML communist? And what other ideology would OP, who posted this from anarchist nexus to an anarchism community, propose i hold instead if not anarchism?
I don't propose you hold any ideology, I'm just curious as to why people choose this one
Because I see no other credible way to stop capital from devouring the world.