I think you give them too much credit. Try asking them to define it one day. It’s fun!
Although around election time (when isn’t it election time in their godforsaken country???) americans can’t seem to decide if I am a “tankie” or a russian agent.
I can do it pretty easily. “Nominal leftists who approve of authoritarian methods to enforce their desired political structure”. That doesn’t describe AnComs since, well, they’re anarchic and do not approve of authoritarian methods. Generally when I see the term used, it’s when the subject in question starts talking about gulags and firing lines, or otherwise imposing their flavor of “communism” on the masses by force.
If that describes you, then you’re a tankie. If you were called a Russian agent, it’s possible that you did something common among known Russian agents, like encouraging leftists not to vote, or otherwise act counterproductively against right wing authoritarians.
I mean there is clearly a difference between an AnCom using the word “tankie” and a shitlib using the same word. Although personally, I prefer the term “campist” because it more precisely describes the nature of my disagreement with them. Plus…I would absolutely be willing to drive/shoot from/die in a tank if it is fighting the class war against capitalism 😈.
Don’t worry, ancoms are “tankies” to the people who use that word too.
There are exceptions but generally, no. Only morons would make this mistake since you have to support the tanks to be a tankie.
I think you give them too much credit. Try asking them to define it one day. It’s fun!
Although around election time (when isn’t it election time in their godforsaken country???) americans can’t seem to decide if I am a “tankie” or a russian agent.
I can do it pretty easily. “Nominal leftists who approve of authoritarian methods to enforce their desired political structure”. That doesn’t describe AnComs since, well, they’re anarchic and do not approve of authoritarian methods. Generally when I see the term used, it’s when the subject in question starts talking about gulags and firing lines, or otherwise imposing their flavor of “communism” on the masses by force.
If that describes you, then you’re a tankie. If you were called a Russian agent, it’s possible that you did something common among known Russian agents, like encouraging leftists not to vote, or otherwise act counterproductively against right wing authoritarians.
Did you do something like that?
I mean there is clearly a difference between an AnCom using the word “tankie” and a shitlib using the same word. Although personally, I prefer the term “campist” because it more precisely describes the nature of my disagreement with them. Plus…I would absolutely be willing to drive/shoot from/die in a tank if it is fighting the class war against capitalism 😈.
The eponymous “tanks” weren’t fighting the class war against capitalism, they were fighting a people’s revolution against what Stalinism became.
No they’re not.
The worst insult I’d use for ancoms is “hopeless romantics”.