The historic use of the word was to distinguish leftists who supported the Soviet Unions use of tanks to suppress a revolt in Budapest in 1956 from communists.
EDIT: Now it more generally refers to anyone who believes in Actually Existing Socialism, or AES, and by extension denies the categorization of State Capitalism, the predominant mode of production in the world today where governments employ the majority of workers.
I still don’t get what tankie means…
Edit: None of those comments helped. Especially the guy who unironically used the word “centrist”.
The historic use of the word was to distinguish leftists who supported the Soviet Unions use of tanks to suppress a revolt in Budapest in 1956 from communists.
EDIT: Now it more generally refers to anyone who believes in Actually Existing Socialism, or AES, and by extension denies the categorization of State Capitalism, the predominant mode of production in the world today where governments employ the majority of workers.
Per Urban dictionary. Centrists use it to slur socialists/communists.
Not all socialists/communists are tankies, they’re the more extremist branch.
So extreme they horseshoed right around to dascism, don’t believe in worker enfranchisement and are indifferent about abolition of the commodity form…