RE: Russia and Ukraine
October 12, 2022 at 9:58 am
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2022 at 10:00 am by Belacqua.)
(October 12, 2022 at 9:37 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: What are Tankies?
Quote:Tankie is a pejorative label for leftists, particularly Stalinists, who support the authoritarian tendencies of Marxism–Leninism, or more generally authoritarian states historically associated with Marxism–Leninism.
I think this is supposed to be an insult to me, though I'm not sure. As I mentioned before, anyone who doesn't believe that America is pure and good is accused of being some kind of apologist for some other evil thing.
It has no relevance to anything I've said. I have never said anything in praise of Marxism-Leninism or countries which operate on those principles. (I have praised China, but this has a kind of hybrid state capitalist system, nothing like Leninism.) The fact that I oppose the authoritarian tendencies of the US must be misconstrued as something else.
