Fun fact: Tanks didn’t exist while Marx was alive
Don’t read Marx. It clearly explains reality and allows you to understand how you’re being exploited. You’ll also have much quicker realizations about why politicians do the things they do and why building community is actively discouraged. If you knew all that you might start to question the current status quo and that’s bad tankie stuff
I’m starting to think their use of the term tankie is completely meaningless and it’s actually just what they call people they don’t like.
This is exactly it. The word has no meaning anymore beyond “those more socialist-y socialists”.
I only really ever see it used in any remotely meaningful way that isn’t attempting to be a though terminating insult when used towards people that have studied theory or those baby leftists that hang out online with us theory enjoyers.
Oh, and needless to really say but anarchists, by definition, can’t be tankies.
‘tankie’ is really just ‘pinko’ for a new generation huh
the definition of the word tankie is like a rubber band that broke long ago from being overstretched, and has now become brittle from sitting in the sun. It used to be an infighting word in the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1950s. CPGB members would accuse each other of being tankie if they towed the CPSU party line, particularly in regards to the USSR’s actions against the (US-backed) Hungarian uprising.
Now it’s just a term liberals use when you tell them to read Capital. Marx? A tankie? Tanks didn’t even exist until after he died lol.
hmmm… Tachanka is just a maxim gun mounted on a horse cart. Maxim gun came from 1884 and Marx died in 1883. So nope. Tachankas didn’t exist until after Marx died either. Ergo no Tachankies.
He died, and it was invented right afterward. Sounds like he reincarnated
