• LittleLordLimerick@lemm.ee
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              When people say “anti-woke”, they actually mean that they are anti-doing anything about the awareness of systemic inequality that wokeness indicates. By definition, someone who is against change/progress is a conservative, so when someone says they are anti-woke, they are by definition expressing a conservative stance. That is, wanting to do something about systemic inequality is synonymous with having a progressive stance on systemic inequality.

              Being a tankie, on the other hand, is not synonymous with being a comunist. Tankies are just one form of communist (militant).

              • brain_in_a_box [he/him]@hexbear.net
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                And when people say they are “anti-tankie”, they actually mean that they are anti doing anything about the awareness of systematic inequality that tankie indicates. By definition, someone who is against change/progress is a conservative, so when someone says they are anti-tankie, they are by definition expressing a conservative stance. That is, wanting to do something about systemic inequality is synonymous with having a progressive stance on systemic inequality.

                Being a tankie, on the other hand, is not synonymous with being a comunist. Tankies are just one form of communist (militant).

                Other way around: communists are just one form of tankies, the word is also used to refer to anarchists and some soc-dems.

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                  You’re spun around, flipped upside-down, and confused as can be.

                  Tankie is a term that specifically refers to one particular kind of communism; namely, the kind that supports authoritarian regimes that try to impose communism through the use of force to repress dissent.

                  You can be a communist and not be a tankie. You cannot be against progress and be a progressive.

                  • brain_in_a_box [he/him]@hexbear.net
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                    1 year ago

                    You’re spun around, flipped upside-down, and confused as can be.

                    Very compelling, but have you considered

                    spoiler

                    PIGPOOPBALLS

                    Tankie is a term that specifically refers to one particular kind of communism

                    No, it’s used to refer a wide, vague blob of vibes, just like the word woke. The people who use it can can do use it to refer to all kinds of communists, most anarchists, and anything to the left of Elizabeth Warren in general.

                    that try to impose communism through the use of force.

                    As opposed to the kind of communism where you ask nicely for revolution? Have you actually read any Marx? I guarantee he was not a pacifist.

                    You can be a communist and not be a tankie

                    By your own definition you cannot, let alone by a definition of tankie that describes how libs actually use it.

                  • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.net
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                    Tankie is a term that specifically refers to one particular kind of communism

                    Nope, tankie originally referred specifically to British labor party members supporting the USSR’s actions against the coup in Hungary, and today is used to refer to any anti-imperialist leftist, regardless of tendency. Of course all of you claim otherwise, but these claims are provably empty, as nobody who uses the term today, including you in this thread, bothers to check for the actual political views of the people you call tankie, you see something that may go against the state department narratives that are spoonfed to you by V*ush and the reddit front page or whoever else has done this pseudo-leftist brainworming to you and you start yelling tankie at the top of your liberal, western-chauvinist lungs. A good number of the people posting on hexbear are anarchists and DemSocs, but you will label all of them tankie as long as they critically support China or question the narrative on the new forever war in Ukraine, which to you equals “thinking today’s Russia is true communism” and similar nonsense. Your understanding of politics is damaged beyond repair by being socialized as a smartass debatelord who has become entirely incapable of forming judgements not based on learned reflex and of engaging in good faith conversations. I would pity you if people like you wouldn’t be such a disaster for the Western left and for anybody in the Global South suffering from the continued imperialism you help enable by fighting the last genuine critics of genocidal US policies that are left in the West. You CIA tool, you psyop casualty, you neocon bootlicker.

            • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube
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              Tankie usually refers to Marxism-Leninism (as well the ideologies that derived from it such as Maoism). But there are communist ideologies that don’t derive from ML such as Orthodox Marxism, trotskyism, libertarian Marxism, bulshevism, etc.

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                Tankie usually refers to Marxism-Leninism

                no it usually refers to whatever the fuck the person posting it seems to think it is, there is not a coherent label for it.

                Orthodox Marxism, trotskyism, libertarian Marxism, bulshevism, etc.

                Oh cool, which societies use those?

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                  no it usually refers to whatever the fuck the person posting it seems to think it is, there is not a coherent label for it.

                  Why are you letting libs define everything? You and I both know they’re dumbasses and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

                  Oh cool, which societies use those?

                  Anyone could have said the same to Marx about communism at any point in his life, as he died before the October revolution.

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                    Anyone could have said the same to Marx about communism at any point in his life, as he died before the October revolution.

                    the difference is you named a bunch of dead ideologies that will never be revived, ML is literally the only form of marxism still flourishing