Fun fact: Tanks didn't exist while Marx was alive
IIRC, Engels was nicknamed 'artilleryman-philosopher' when he served in Prussian army.
Don't read Marx. It clearly explains reality and allows you to understand how you're being exploited. You'll also have much quicker realizations about why politicians do the things they do and why building community is actively discouraged. If you knew all that you might start to question the current status quo and that's bad tankie stuff
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I'm starting to think their use of the term tankie is completely meaningless and it's actually just what they call people they don't like.
It's because "commie" sounds too boomer.
This is exactly it. The word has no meaning anymore beyond "those more socialist-y socialists".
I only really ever see it used in any remotely meaningful way that isn't attempting to be a though terminating insult when used towards people that have studied theory or those baby leftists that hang out online with us theory enjoyers.
Oh, and needless to really say but anarchists, by definition, can't be tankies.
left unity?I love the people who are very insistent that it's a well-defined political science term and not just an epithet that arose out of a single political disagreement ("during hungary") that they've adopted to mean any time someone opposes the united states.
'tankie' is really just 'pinko' for a new generation huh
What in the hell is a pinko
No joke, I had to explain to my boomer mother what it meant yesterday, in the context of the Chapo episode on the ADL spying. She always thought it was a derogatory term for Polish people, which she got from watching All in the Family.
the definition of the word tankie is like a rubber band that broke long ago from being overstretched, and has now become brittle from sitting in the sun. It used to be an infighting word in the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1950s. CPGB members would accuse each other of being tankie if they towed the CPSU party line, particularly in regards to the USSR's actions against the (US-backed) Hungarian uprising.
Now it's just a term liberals use when you tell them to read Capital. Marx? A tankie? Tanks didn't even exist until after he died lol.
no links?The automod response is from https://www.reddit.com/r/tankiejerk
Their bigger posts from their front page I noticed include someone whining that someone put out agitprop condemning the zionist entity's continued violations of human rights and the natural response to such, and hand waiving away all the atrocities the US committed in Korea as "well who invaded first." So, yeah, bot checks out.
Writing about bolts of linen cloth is the gateway drug of authoritarian ideology
Nothing says "We absolutely know what we are talking about" quite like refusing to ever read anything that contradicts their position and nothing says "we aren't an echo chamber" quite like banning everyone who disagrees with them.
putting "socialist" in quotes under "read marx" is fucking wild
"Dubček? Yeah, I checked: zero dubs, only Ls. Get invaded, nerd" - Carl Mark
Redditors (mostly Americans) are classically conditioned to reflexively show aversion to Marx it seems
And reading anything deeper than a Creepypasta.
"Marx" 
Trots in shambles
That’s not a bot, this is a coward mod afraid to reveal who they are, so they posted under the generic mod team account
"This is an anti-tankie reddit"
hmmm... Tachanka is just a maxim gun mounted on a horse cart. Maxim gun came from 1884 and Marx died in 1883. So nope. Tachankas didn't exist until after Marx died either. Ergo no Tachankies.