Someone who sees through cold-war anticommunist propaganda and defends the anti-imperialist and massively progressive Actually Existing Socialist states (USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam…) instead of belonging to the “compatible left” that doesn’t actually have a history of successful struggle against capitalism and imperialism.
People will be called tankies for defending the socialist figures and projects which get vilified in western discourse precisely because of their success against capitalism and fascism (Fidel, Lenin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh), whereas anticommunists will only praise historical figures and projects who failed (Allende, Rojavas, Spanish anarchists) because their metric is not actual improvements to quality of life of people but ideological purity.
Tankie started out as a pejorative word against communists with the attempt to associate them with militarism. Notice how other leftists don’t call liberals “dronies” for supporting Obama despite the drone attacks on civilians in the middle east, don’t call fascists or Nazis “campies” despite the extensive usage of concentration camps, and don’t call capitalists “colonies” despite the widespread colonialism, such violent terms are only reserved to socialists. I consider myself a communist and I reclaim the label “tankie”, since it was actually Soviet tanks (T-34s mainly) which destroyed Nazism and saved hundreds of millions of lives in Europe from extermination.
I will never understand anarchists, if I can read and enjoy Kropotkin as a Marxist-Leninist, what the fuck prevents you from reading and enjoying Parenti
I was responding to a question about the pejorative term “tankie”, it was literally tankies being attacked here. My parentiposting consisted mainly of defending my ideology from attacks by the compatible left.
Tanking the definition of fascism from a fascist because it’s convenient to your “all states are actually the same” ideology is also bad faith, especially when you explicitly ignore the differences in outcomes between different modes of governance.
To you it’s a theoretical/philosophical debate about what’s more pure, to me it’s a matter of whether people get to have food, housing, healthcare, rights and education (which you explicitly ignored)
Someone who sees through cold-war anticommunist propaganda and defends the anti-imperialist and massively progressive Actually Existing Socialist states (USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam…) instead of belonging to the “compatible left” that doesn’t actually have a history of successful struggle against capitalism and imperialism.
People will be called tankies for defending the socialist figures and projects which get vilified in western discourse precisely because of their success against capitalism and fascism (Fidel, Lenin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh), whereas anticommunists will only praise historical figures and projects who failed (Allende, Rojavas, Spanish anarchists) because their metric is not actual improvements to quality of life of people but ideological purity.
Tankie started out as a pejorative word against communists with the attempt to associate them with militarism. Notice how other leftists don’t call liberals “dronies” for supporting Obama despite the drone attacks on civilians in the middle east, don’t call fascists or Nazis “campies” despite the extensive usage of concentration camps, and don’t call capitalists “colonies” despite the widespread colonialism, such violent terms are only reserved to socialists. I consider myself a communist and I reclaim the label “tankie”, since it was actually Soviet tanks (T-34s mainly) which destroyed Nazism and saved hundreds of millions of lives in Europe from extermination.
oh god, it’s like reading parenti
make it stop
Block me already, Mussolini enjoyer
I will never understand anarchists, if I can read and enjoy Kropotkin as a Marxist-Leninist, what the fuck prevents you from reading and enjoying Parenti
when does kropotkin infantalize and dismiss marxists?
I was responding to a question about the pejorative term “tankie”, it was literally tankies being attacked here. My parentiposting consisted mainly of defending my ideology from attacks by the compatible left.
“Mussolini enjoyer”
this is some bad faith bullshit
Tanking the definition of fascism from a fascist because it’s convenient to your “all states are actually the same” ideology is also bad faith, especially when you explicitly ignore the differences in outcomes between different modes of governance.
To you it’s a theoretical/philosophical debate about what’s more pure, to me it’s a matter of whether people get to have food, housing, healthcare, rights and education (which you explicitly ignored)