I know for a lot of people a tankie is just something that they know it when they see it, however I think that it is important to think about the reason that you define something as being tankie vs just a leftist.

  • @mydude
    -4•4 days ago

    I like libertarian socialists, I might be one myself. I just think that the word tankie gets thrown around a lot. If everyone (I don’t like) is a tankie, no one is.

    Let me put it this way; If Bernie is a sexist (and he was called sexist many times from different groups of people), then everyone can be called a sexist, and the word has lost it’s meaning.

    • Flying Squid
      8•4 days ago

      You really think the word sexism has no meaning anymore?

      Do you think the same about racism?

    • fxomtEnglish
      6•4 days ago

      It is still a real term, and it is a problem.

      It can be thrown around by liberals sometimes but most tankie criticizers ARE leftist in my experience. This place is one of them, and if someone disagrees with basic leftist sentiment us mods will take action.

        • fxomtEnglish
          5•4 days ago

          I have no idea why you won’t use the current Wikipedia page, but it says:

          referring to hardline authoritarian or Marxist–Leninist positions on the left.

          Yeah? It was saying it deviated from the original meaning which was supporting the crushing of the Hungarian revolution and Prague spring. And there’s a huge venn diagram between MLs and “actual” tankies.

          As for the actual Wikipedia page:

          It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well

          I’m not going to argue about this anymore. This is not a debate community, and this is your final warning.

    • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
      6•4 days ago

      I feel you may have misjudged this group then. That is part of why I made this post to try and get a consensus as to what the people of this community define as tankies and it is surprisingly consistent for something that you claim has lost all meaning.