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.
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.
The best one was definitely that time that a hexbear user joined in to lemm.ee’s “do we defederate from hexbear?” thread to tell the admin that “your kulak great grandparents deserved it” apparently on the basis that he’s Estonian and doesn’t like the Soviet Union
I got a better one than that one. I was told by one of them that Stalin put thousands of Jews in the gulags for the same reason Nazis put them in concentration camps (apparently deservedly both times)- “they were radical Marxists.”
Like, WTF? Isn’t that a good thing to you?
Is the distinction being drawn between Marxist and Marxist-Leninist, or is “radical Marxism” referring to radicalism as in Jeremy Bentham? Or is there some third thing going on?
I decided not to delve into the topic because I can only stomach so much bigotry.
That was probably a sensible decision