It’s essentially a pejorative for “communist.” I recommend the Prolewiki article on “Tankies,” as well as Nia Frome’s essay “Tankies.”

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Incorrect, those are incredibly biased sources.

Tankies are authoritarian communists. There’s more than one flavor of communists. I do love how you guys try to make it seem like you’re the only kind of communists or the “true leftists” out there