is it not painfully vague, almost to the point that it is practically meaningless at differentiating some leftists (or leftist forums) from others?
It includes literally everyone that has ever called themselves an actual socialist.
The only people not included in this fuckery are the people saying they're socialists when what they mean is the nordic model. There aren't any people waving the red flag who do not agree that the ussr and china were legitimate attempts at some point or another. There's literally nobody that matters who would say that these revolutions and the subsequent attempts were attempts at communism. They may disagree at which point their failed or veered off course but they'll all agree they were legitimate attempts.
This functionally puts literally all socialists under the "tankie" banner.
This functionally puts literally all socialists under the "tankie" banner.
Yup. This reminds me of discussions from a few weeks ago about how liberals are beginning to use "tankie" like how conservatives have been using "woke" ... they've jumped on this new label that they can easily slap onto something they don't like or understand, so that they can protect themselves from having to engage in good faith with anyone to their left or reflect on their own ideas
It includes literally everyone that has ever called themselves an actual socialist.
The only people not included in this fuckery are the people saying they're socialists when what they mean is the nordic model. There aren't any people waving the red flag who do not agree that the ussr and china were legitimate attempts at some point or another. There's literally nobody that matters who would say that these revolutions and the subsequent attempts were attempts at communism. They may disagree at which point their failed or veered off course but they'll all agree they were legitimate attempts.
This functionally puts literally all socialists under the "tankie" banner.
Yup. This reminds me of discussions from a few weeks ago about how liberals are beginning to use "tankie" like how conservatives have been using "woke" ... they've jumped on this new label that they can easily slap onto something they don't like or understand, so that they can protect themselves from having to engage in good faith with anyone to their left or reflect on their own ideas