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I was once called a tankie for saying that people should organize tenant unions.
haha yea they throw tankie on anything approachin leftist 🫠
Anything left of Reagan will do it
I remember getting called a tankie for criticizing Elon Musk back when he was wholesome chungus liberal Iron Man.
I’ve seen it used against people wanting better than ACA in America or pointing out it’s just Romneycare
What does tankie mean
It’s just an updated version of “commie” or “pinko” for anti communist who don’t want to sound like cold war boomers.
Someone who supports existing socialist states, generally.
On the one hand, Western Marxists and Marxist-Leninists are not the same, but on the other hand, both of them—and even anarchists sometimes—get called tankie by liberals anyway.
“Western Marxists” like Sartre or Parenti?
no, more like chomsky. it’s not nationality that matter but who you’re aligned with.
Who would consider Chomsky a Marxist? 😭💀
libs?
FFS
I think Epstein called him that in one of the emails
Chomsky’s Epstein ties kinda lead me to dismiss anything he has ever wrote.
You’re a few decades late to the party
parenti wrote a book which is kind of like manufacturing consent but better which is called inventing reality, i think you’ll learn something reading chomsky beyond him being a piece of shit, but you’ll learn more if you read parenti, lol.
and Zizek
Western Marxists meaning compatible-left Marxists of the imperial core. Western Marxism: How It was Born, How It Died, How It can be Reborn
This is too fucked up. Yesterday, I was accused of being a rapist in an instance with a beef against “tankies”, and their behavior was really shitty and shady. These instance wars are plainly stupid and sad.
The funniest part about the whole tankie thing is that it was coined by British reactionaries in response to the suppression of a counter-revolution in Hungary, which has now been revealed to be a CIA op.
I think calling it an op is going too far. There was a democratic students’ movement that siezed the radio station, and they had mass support. The CIA gave support to an ex-Nazi who provided military training after this had happened. The crackdown by the Soviets was brutal and many innocent Hungarians were killed. Dismissing the whole thing as just a CIA op makes it sound like another Bay of Pigs, which this was not.
There was no mass support. The US was cultivating a proto color revolution, a formula that’s been used time and again since then. What we do know is that in cases where there was no crackdown on Western funded reactionaries, then we got outcomes like in Chile. Thinking that this was some organic movement is frankly absurd. Also, can read up on precisely the tactics used, and how they have direct lineage in nazi propaganda https://november8ph.ca/psychological-warfare-in-the-strategy-of-imperialism-v-l-artemov/
People hated the Rákosi government for its political repression and economic austerity measures. Imre Nagy was not a western-sponsored colonel in the Hungarian military, he was a communist. After the fighting in Budapest, revolutionary workers councils organized all over the country. You think the CIA and Radio Free Europe were responsible for that?
My issue with this type of logic is that it’s all or nothing. Thereis a sentence in the declassified document, therefore the whole thing was orchestrated by the US. There was more going on here than Operation Gladio.
Read the book I linked to educate yourself.
Lol, yeah, totally reasonable way to engage with someone.
Sorry, I always forget that books to a liberal are like garlic to a vampire.
Have you ever been in a conversation with someone and told them “I can’t talk to you because you’re too ignorant, you have to read this book first”? How did that go?
You know what? I’m gonna go make a reply meme.
Should I link it? Or just let folks find it organically?
In liberal circles, “tankie” functions as the counterpart to conservatives’ use of “woke.”
