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What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

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[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 days ago

A slur mainly on the internet against those leftist (usually Marxists-leninist) who oppose western interventions, sanctions, coups and wars against countries and governments labeled as "authoritarian".

originally used by UK communists party trotskyist wing in support of Hungarian -56 crushed uprising against those who opposed it, calling them tankies. Vaguely same as "stalinist", but it pretty much has lost that meaning in modern use.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 days ago

A lot of these comments reminds me of people posting on conservative chats asking what a socialist is. About the same amount of mouth foaming.

I would like to remind people about vaccinations against rabies

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Tankie

https://redsails.org/tankies/

https://blackagendareport.com/western-marxism-loves-purity-and-martyrdom-not-real-revolution

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

OP I am glad you asked this because I don’t know. Also based on the horseshit answers you have gotten in this post it seems like no one else does either.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

It's what centrists call anyone to the left of netanyahu.

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