алсааас [she/her]Define “tankie” please
theneverfoxHighly authoritarian leftists
deltaspawn0040There is actually technically no such thing as an authoritarian leftist. Leftism is defined as more egalitarian/less hierarchical. Tankies are right wingers that have been pushed into the same spaces as leftists because they are against Western nationalism.
Cowbee [he/they]“Tankie” is just a pejorative for those who support socialism in the real world. It’s a caricature, the “tankie” is someone that believes everything levied against socialist states by the west is both true and good. In reality, many groups and figures like the Black Panther Party, Nelson Mandela, etc are supportive of socialist states, and are thus the same “tankies” demonized by anti-communists.
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I’m giving my POV as a Marxist that disagrees with being labled “right wing” and having Marxism boiled down to “opposing western nationalism.”
I’d say Marxist-Leninists are the ones getting called Tankie way more than everyday Marxists.
MLs are the “everyday Marxists,” globally. The number of MLs outweighs the rest. Further, MLMs, Trots, and other types get called tankie all the same.