• FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I have only seen it used in reference to people who support dictatorial regimes with socialist aesthetics, mostly MLs. I have yet to see an anarchist be called a tankie. Also you can hear it IRL, not commonly though since most MLs are on twitter and the like and not IRL.

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      1 year ago

      Based on your answer, I’ve discovered what tankie means: Tankie = Marxist.

      Successful Marxist movement results in a dictatorship of the proletariat. Dictator = tankie.

      Hence tankie is a term used to describe any Marxist.

      Thanks for contributing to this scientific breakthrough!

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        1 year ago

        Nah, first premise is false in more than one way. You are conflating the ideology Stalin made with Marxism.

        The second error is that there has never been a dictatorship of the proletariat, every time it has been a political party that seizes power for themselves and not the workers. In doing so they become the ruling class with differing class interests than the workers.

        Marx must be rotating in his grave with the speed to power the whole globe at this point.

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          1 year ago

          You didn’t do the reading :(. Dictatorship of the proletariat is a concept Marx and Engles adopted. Stalin didn’t create it.

          I don’t know what you think the proletariat taking control of the state is suppose to look like, but there will always be a communist party involved. The mechanisms of power exist to be ruled by a party.

          Communist parties should be judged by what they do for their poorest citizens. With that in mind, AES countries are doing a decent job. Things get better when they are in power, and get way worse if they are overthrown

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, clearly the Soviet, Chinese and Cuban workers had completely different interests than being raised out of poverty and squalor. Damn those dastardly political parties and their… diligent work towards eradictaing poverty while promoting actual, decentralized democracy.

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            Well, Cubans still live in pretty close proximity to squalor. They can’t even afford to maintain their own buildings, don’t have a functional transportation system, and people live on what, $20 a month? The one saving grace is out there health care system is decent. And by that, I mean much more equitable than in the United States.

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          1 year ago

          the ideology Stalin made

          I would say Lenin was more instrumental in the creation of Marxism-Leninism, Stalin was just the guy who happened to be in charge when they named it. It’s also a tendency that has evolved a lot from what it was in the 40s.