Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.

  • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
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    These threads are odd to me, considering how many people call all communists tankies. The word seems to be used by anarchists, conservatives, communists, anti-communists, and more, and every person has a slightly different definition.

    Half the people here could consider the other half to be the tankies everyone is mad at.

    To be clear this isn’t me saying “be nice to the tankies” this is me saying “the overuse of this word is confusing the shit out of me.”

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      It became confusing when liberals learnt of the word - now they hurl the word at anyone who dares to remind them that being pro-capitalist is still a right-wing thing to be.

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      I’m an anarchist, we don’t call anybody tankies. Tankies is a term coming from the UK i think the 80s some eastern european nation was taken over by the USSR and some Brittish came out in support of it. So they were called tankies.

      These political fighting words need to be layed to rest. Communists hate me as much as anybody else but I’d rather engage on the idea level instead of ad hominem attacks and name calling.

      I suspect this whole tankie thing might be a coordinated propaganda campaign geared at discrediting communists and at the same time creating tension between them and other leftits. I suspect this as this whole infighting over small differences doesn’t lead to a victory for the left but effectively disables and neutralizes it.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsqE9kEsDVY

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        I’m an anarchist, we don’t call anybody tankies.

        Speak for yourself… anarchists are very prone to using that term to describe the technocratic left. I know, I’m one of them.

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      Then there’s folks like me who have no idea what the term means, you’re not alone in your confusion.

      Edit: thanks for all the replies folks! TIL