Feb 26, 2022 · "Tankie" originated as a label for westerners who backed the Soviet Union so thoroughly that they approved of the use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and/or the 1968 Prague Spring uprising. The violent repression of those movements made it plain that the USSR was as authoritarian as the Russian Empire it had replaced, that ...

A tankie is a member of a communist group or a "fellow traveller" (sympathiser) who believes fully in the political system of the Soviet Union and defends/defended the actions of the Soviet Union and other accredited states (China, Serbia, etc.) to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions.

Apr 23, 2024 · The ship "tankie" comes from a 1935 issue of the magazine The Naval Review. I found the description of the "tankie" in a citation from a book titled "Fabulous admirals and some naval fragments" (Lowis, 1957), a compilation of stories about the Royal Navy written by RN commander Geoffrey Lyttelton Lowis. Here the relevant part (cited by Betts ...

Tankie is a derogatory word for communists (MLs, MLMs, MLHs) used by non communists. (Mostly anarchists and social democrats/demsocs) It's a term born from a near complete ignorance of communist history and communist political theory, mixed with decades of fascist and imperialist anti communist propaganda.

Dunking on tankies from a leftist (anti-capitalist) perspective. A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian/ totalitarian regimes under the guise of socialism. The term originated from those who supported the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays, most tankies are terminally online genocide-deniers who fall heavily for the state …

Apr 4, 2016 · It's simplistic to conflate "tankie" with Maoists or people who defend aspects of the Soviet Union, because plenty of Maoists will admit the Cultural Revolution went too far or was a mistake, and many people who speak positively of the U.S.S.R. argue that Stalin's purges or the invasions of Hungary, Czechoslavkia, Afghanistan, etc. were also ...

Jan 5, 2024 · Tankie usually refers to Marxist-Leninists, the school of thought developed by Stalin based on the writings of Lenin. The idea of it is that in order to achieve the stateless worker's paradise envisioned by Marx, there would need to be a dictatorship of the proletariat enforced by a communist vanguard party which would crush any dissent.

Dunking on tankies from a leftist (anti-capitalist) perspective. A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian/ totalitarian regimes under the guise of socialism. The term originated from those who supported the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union.

Tankie has no meaning (or at least it did have a meaning at one point but it's overuse has killed the word). Groomer, SJW, marxist, etc. ... 99% of the time are used wrongly and over used to the point it's just a pejorative used online in place of cuck or whatever the previous word was used.

Dunking on tankies from a leftist (anti-capitalist) perspective. A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian/ totalitarian regimes under the guise of socialism. The term originated from those who supported the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union.