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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
Was looking through some old posts on that sub just now and I found this lmao
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.
But what if the anarchists supported the Soviet invasion of Hungary and happened to be British?
just watch me
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.
But what about tachankies?
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.He died, and it was invented right afterward. Sounds like he reincarnated
I’m the reincarnation of Marx? I’m just now hearing this for the first time.
You do look just like the guy
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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tankiejerk/comments/17tyrp6/got_called_a_fascist_brownshirt_by_a_tankie/
Got called a Fascist Brownshirt by a Tankie
I was arguing with this Tankie on tiktok (waste of time I know) & we were talking about the 2024 election. I said that it doesn’t make someone a “bad-leftist” if they don’t vote 3rd party in 2024 & that it is perfectly reasonable for a leftist to vote democratic in 2024. He then preceded to say that I was “encouraging genocide” (despite my statement earlier that I DO support Palestine) & that the republican and democratic party are the exact same thing. He then called me a “Fascist blackshirt Marxist” and blocked me.
And thus I join this sub
You can tell this happened because the tankie called them a Marxist for voting as a democrat.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tankiejerk/comments/17qvdgg/any_thoughts_on_pete_buttigieg/
Any thoughts on Pete Buttigieg?
Just merge with the neoliberal sub already. This place is a joke.
(mod) Trust me, we’ve been trying for months to fix the liberal problem. We’ve managed to reduce the amount of liberal rhetoric being spread on here, but we haven’t managed to actually drive most of the liberals out (as shown by our monthly ideology poll).
What the fuck are they replacing liberals with?
What the fuck are they replacing liberals with?
Theoretically, anarchists and other “libertarian socialist” types. In practice, mostly liberals who like listening to pop-punk and looking at pictures of graffiti online.
I vote that hexbear do a weekly ideology poll. This is important data that definitely can’t be falsified by simply choosing an option in the poll that doesn’t align with your actual ideology simply to “fit in”.
This week I feel like a Marxist Scorpio because I’m smart, empathetic, and dialectical.
anarchists routinely undercounted due to our refusal to comply with the tabulating and rationalizing functions of the state
What the fuck are they replacing liberals with?
No-veggies-at-dinner no-bedtimes no-theory don’t-tell-me-what-to-doooooooooo pop-anarchists mostly.
shouldn’t have clicked that link. some very stupid people in there.
holy fucking shit liberal zionists please fucking choke on glass fucking fascist apologist losers why do you even care about politics if your position on everything is that everyone should just be nice to everyone else and if you ever do anything to achieve any particular goal you’re a tankie
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
🎵 I read Karl Marx and I liked it.
He’s so ma-te-ri-al-iiiist.
I read Capital just to try it.
I hope my lib friends don’t mind it. 🎶
It pains me that I understood this reference.
broken link
That doesn’t sound like Marx tbh
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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”
