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.
Chomsky wasn’t an authoritarian… and most anarchists are led there from Chomsky. I’m one of those people who started with manufactured consent and ended up in anarchist land.
But yeah, I’d agree that tankies are all authoritarians and support for authoritarianism (even as a means to an end) is the dividing line between tankies and non tankies.
As I said, “who are not, themselves, actual supporters of authoritarian-style socialism. They just eagerly eat up and regurgitate agitprop from actual tankies. Campist brainrot often runs rampant here, but they aren’t actual tankies.”