I’m a little lost on this one. So I tank pretty hard & the US has always been an imperialist state - but there really isn’t anything more proletarian than killing slavers. I don’t get why you think Tankies would support the confederacy.
The US was not the global hegemon it is now either, it was an imperialist state sure, but not nearly on the same level… This seems like one hell of a reach; unless you just make up your own definition of Tankie.
I don’t think they are saying tankies support the confederacy. I think they are saying that the regimes tankies tend to support are just as bad (Assad’s Syria, North Korea, Gaddafi, Khmer Rouge, etc.) and their arguments for why are so weak and shallow they could be used to support the confederacy by the same logic.
I’m a little lost on this one. So I tank pretty hard & the US has always been an imperialist state - but there really isn’t anything more proletarian than killing slavers. I don’t get why you think Tankies would support the confederacy.
The US was not the global hegemon it is now either, it was an imperialist state sure, but not nearly on the same level… This seems like one hell of a reach; unless you just make up your own definition of Tankie.
I don’t think they are saying tankies support the confederacy. I think they are saying that the regimes tankies tend to support are just as bad (Assad’s Syria, North Korea, Gaddafi, Khmer Rouge, etc.) and their arguments for why are so weak and shallow they could be used to support the confederacy by the same logic.