Kay I need to ask, how does Lemmy use tankie? I’ve always thought it meant people who are willing to use violence against capitalist. I have a feeling I’m wrong.
Yeah, they’re fans of the so-called “communism” of authoritarian countries like China and the USSR, which are about as communist as the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea is democratic or a republic.
Not necessarily, Leninists and OG Marxists usually don’t get lumped in with Tankies - while Trotskists definitely should be. Tankies accept blatant authoritarianism as an acceptable cost to achieve socialism, non-Tankies reject authoritarian regimes.
Are you saying Antifa are tankies?
Not at all.
Who is the tanky in the picture?
My bad eyes totally didn’t see that was the antifa flag.
So nothing I said applies to this post … whoops.
To be fair everything you said still holds true if you replace tankie with antifa
Except not, because tankies love oppression as long as its their specific flavor of oppression.
Kay I need to ask, how does Lemmy use tankie? I’ve always thought it meant people who are willing to use violence against capitalist. I have a feeling I’m wrong.
Tankie is someone who thinks that Mao (and modern CCP) and Stalin were super alright people who did nothing wrong.
AFAIK a tankie is someone who is a fan of authoritarian communism or socialism… I forget which but the key part is the authoritarianism part, I think.
Yeah, they’re fans of the so-called “communism” of authoritarian countries like China and the USSR, which are about as communist as the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea is democratic or a republic.
Okay, gotcha. Tankie == historical communist. Tankie =/= neosocialist.
Not necessarily, Leninists and OG Marxists usually don’t get lumped in with Tankies - while Trotskists definitely should be. Tankies accept blatant authoritarianism as an acceptable cost to achieve socialism, non-Tankies reject authoritarian regimes.
… and super-Tankies are Pol Pot apologists.
Thank you! It’s all about that authoritarianism.