Even if you disagree with them, Trotskyists are not tankies, simple Marxists aren’t tankies, leftists curious and exploring different theories aren’t tankies, and ffs anarchists like myself are not tankies.

I feel like “tankie” indicated a very specific worldview at one time, but it’s been used lately a lot to mean things like “doesn’t agree with nations supporting oppression and inequity up to and including genocide” – which is drastically at odds with how I’ve seen the term used in the past, no?

  • Klara@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    24 days ago

    I have genuinely only seen tankie used by anarchists and libertarian socialists generally. Didn’t even know that liberals knew of the term. :/

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      24 days ago

      Thanks to .world, a lot of liberals here now know it. The issue is many are using it like the American right uses woke: anything or anyone they don’t like, generally because their political or social commentary challenges their assumptions and makes them uncomfortable.