I got called a tankie in an online argument.
My transformation is complete :lenin-shining:
Congratulations comrade your t34 and ushanka will arrive in 1-2 weeks
I get called a tankie all the time and I'm an anarchist lol.
Tankie = someone that doesn't deepthroat NATO boot or acceptable slur for non-white person they disagree with.
Yeah I got banned from some subs because I commented in genzedong once like 2 years ago.
Whenever I was on Reddit and made a communist argument on any non-communist thread the only response I ever got was “this tankie posts on genzedong, they are a Holocaust denier” and never any response to my actual comment
I don't even bother with that because I never get responses, just downvotes. They have long ago learned they can't argue with it because the tankies are right about everything so they just ignore it. A level of cope I can't even imagine.
That sounds typical for reddit, but this was actually on Instagram lol
I once got called a tankie by someone two sentences after they advocated for the morality of the US sanctions on Iraq after I informed them of the half a million dead infants statistic and provided sources
They person who called me tankie was going on about systemic oppression in communist countries and listed off loads of gommunizm bad examples (Holodomor, Purges, Great Leap Forward, Tibet) including the Uyghurs. In my response I called it the 'alleged' genocide, which was the line for him lol.
He also listed the Cultural Revolution as an example of systemic (which according to his definition means purely governmental) oppression in communist countries, which... Yeah...
There wasn't much point. I'd have got bogged down pointing out how all his examples either weren't examples of systemic oppression, didn't happen, or both.
It started when some guy said "the communists were the same as the Nazis!" I asked who the alleged exploitation of Uyghurs and Tibetans benefited, as the concept of Han supremacy doesn't really exist in China, and private enterprise is controlled, and they called me a tankie for not believing that the Uyghurs are being (culturally) genocided.
Edit: I should add that I don't believe the Uyghurs are victims of any type of genocide, but the guy was using cultural genocide as an example of how communists systematically oppress people.
Yes, I intend to. I'm going through Settlers at the moment, and I'd like to go through Gramsci's prison notebooks too as his concept of cultural hegemony was kind of a significant part of my radicalisation. I'd like to go through Blackshirts and Reds as well, and eventually work my way back from State and Revolution to Kapital. I'd also like to get some perspectives from African and Latin American leftists, so if anyone has recommendations, that would be nice.
I've also read through The Will to Change by bell hooks, a bit of Masculinities by R. W. Connel, and the Judith Butler paper where she first explains the idea of gender as performative, so Gender Trouble is on my list too.
I'd like to read more philosophy as well, but I'm less sure where to go with that.
Don't sleep on Debt: The First 5000 Years.
It goes a long way to debunk common notions of primitive economic systems and soundly dismisses the myth of barter being the origin of capitalism.
