Even if you disagree with them, Trotskyists are not tankies, simple Marxists aren’t tankies, leftists curious and exploring different theories aren’t tankies, and ffs anarchists like myself are not tankies.
I feel like “tankie” indicated a very specific worldview at one time, but it’s been used lately a lot to mean things like “doesn’t agree with nations supporting oppression and inequity up to and including genocide” – which is drastically at odds with how I’ve seen the term used in the past, no?
Thank you. While I get their point, saying “Taliban is a very admirable group” is definitely taking it too far, especially in that context. Reported it fwiw.
I mod that comm and it has been removed o7, thanks for reporting it