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?

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    5 months ago

    PJ is one of those liberals who’ll say they support leftist policy personally but it’s just not popular among ‘most people’ so we shouldn’t act on them.

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      A status quo warrior through and through.

      They make me understand how something like the Holocaust can happen. “The majority of people hate [x ethnic group], so that makes it ok to persecute them.”