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[–] 39 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

funny thing about tankie is that they just revealed it's based on another cia coup attempt. it proves tankies right lmao.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    i don't mean this antagonistically but do you have a source to share for that?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    i should really have some good sources saved for this, the tankie thing is a perfect way to expose the irony. took me a while to find this again but it's worth digging deeper than me if you are interested in it:

    basically "tankie" comes from how soviets crushed the hungarians with tanks and the us said it was a brutal suppression of anarchists or something similar.

    soviets denied it and accused them of working for the empire, and now the cia under trump has declassified their role in trying for a color revolution in there.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

    On the one hand, Western Marxists and Marxist-Leninists are not the same, but on the other hand, both of them—and even anarchists sometimes—get called tankie by liberals anyway.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (11 children)

    "Western Marxists" like Sartre or Parenti?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    no, more like chomsky. it's not nationality that matter but who you're aligned with.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Who would consider Chomsky a Marxist? 😭💀

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Chomsky's Epstein ties kinda lead me to dismiss anything he has ever wrote.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    parenti wrote a book which is kind of like manufacturing consent but better which is called inventing reality, i think you'll learn something reading chomsky beyond him being a piece of shit, but you'll learn more if you read parenti, lol.

    https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-inventing-reality

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  • [–] 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I was once called a tankie for saying that people should organize tenant unions.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I remember getting called a tankie for criticizing Elon Musk back when he was wholesome chungus liberal Iron Man.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

    The funniest part about the whole tankie thing is that it was coined by British reactionaries in response to the suppression of a counter-revolution in Hungary, which has now been revealed to be a CIA op.

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    [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago

    In liberal circles, "tankie" functions as the counterpart to conservatives' use of "woke."

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    This is too fucked up. Yesterday, I was accused of being a rapist in an instance with a beef against "tankies", and their behavior was really shitty and shady. These instance wars are plainly stupid and sad.

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