Words have really gotten away from themselves. I've been banned for being a tankie before which is funny. Tankie iirc comes from the supporters of sending the tanks into Hungary in the 50s, these days its kinda used as a pejorative for any Marxist and sometimes for anything left of liberal. To me, modern 'tankies' are the gonzalites and anti-micegenists. Some of the wilder maoists and MLs. People who try to rehabilitate Lysenko unironically. They shouldn't be taken seriously. I do think among this clique of people though there is something of an American Anti-Deutch type deal going on.
Words have really gotten away from themselves. I've been banned for being a tankie before which is funny. Tankie iirc comes from the supporters of sending the tanks into Hungary in the 50s, these days its kinda used as a pejorative for any Marxist and sometimes for anything left of liberal. To me, modern 'tankies' are the gonzalites and anti-micegenists. Some of the wilder maoists and MLs. People who try to rehabilitate Lysenko unironically. They shouldn't be taken seriously. I do think among this clique of people though there is something of an American Anti-Deutch type deal going on.
I think the core meaning of "tankie" is "someone willing to use organized violence for socialism", then the evolution of the term makes sense.
I've kinda just been using Tankie to mean ML, even though it historically doesn't make sense.
It just means anything to the left of you now