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"How Cowbee (prominent.ml Tankie) conflates the terms "communism" and "Tankie" to push the narrative that they're the only "true leftists/Communists" " (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/slop@hexbear.net
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The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.

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[–] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I actually have gotten examples before. I've gotten completely warped ideas of Catalonia, Maknovist Ukraine, and the Kurds in Syria. And wouldn't you know it all three of those examples I've heard have been framed in the context of how they would have been successful movements but the dastardly tankies betrayed them at the last moment.

It's deeply unserious. There are things to learn from those three examples but the romanticized fairy tale stuff just isn't useful. It's so absurd to me because baby brained liberals learned the exact opposite lesson from those historical examples. It's not "don't trust tankies" but the lesson is truly "do not trust the western powers, they're just using you as a wedge to disrupt their more powerful enemies."

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