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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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Right and Vaush is just Destiny dressed up in red and black. Not a leftist but a liberal claiming to be a leftist but everything they advocate people do is just liberalism.

Their non-tankie is just a liberal pretending to be a communist. Every communist that actually poses any argument to liberals and opposes action that reinforces liberalism is a tankie.

Therefore every communist is a tankie. Therefore tankie just means, communist.

That's not even getting into the fact that the very definition itself applies to all communists. Let's go through each group:

MLs: Support all AES. Tankies

Trots: Support Cuba. Authoritarian state. Tankies

Maoists: Don't support China. Support USSR. Tankies.

DemSocs: Support Cuba. Some support USSR (jeremy corbyn and all Euro DemSocs for example). Tankies

This effectively amounts to 95% of all people that call themselves communists. Going into increasingly more niche sects of communist is pointless.

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