No, believing capitalism must fall, even by revolutionary means, does not make you a tankie.
No, believing that the left is hamstrung and baited by the powers that be does not make you a tankie.
No, opposing US imperialism does not make you a tankie.
No, believing in a planned economy does not make you a tankie.
What makes you a tankie is supporting authoritarian regimes crushing everything a leftist is supposed to stand for, because 'West bad' or 'Critical support for Comrade Xi's concentration camps!'
Indeed. It just very strongly implies being a tankie though.
If I asked them to describe implementing such a thing, Im pretty sure they would describe just about the way every murderous communist regime began.
Every economy is planned. There is a framework in which entities function. That is called capitalism. A sandbox where rules are made to make it geared towards growth.
Even if someone went through with the grandiose plan of setting up a communist regime, they would eventually start simulating capitalism.
Whew!
The kmer Rouge thing is crazy, and I just had my first encounter with it in the wild.
Lately I've been feeling alienated from both liberals and the extreme "left".
The liberals boot lick two party politics and shill for corporations. "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" while letting good enough be the enemy of better.
The tankies boot lick shitty individuals and put mere men on pedestals, murdering in the name of "progress".
Can't win I tell ya! 💁
Lately I’ve been feeling alienated from both liberals and the extreme “left".
Political ideology isn't a straight line spectrum though. At the extreme far left, you have people that oppose any form of authoritarian control, people that are in favor of absolute authoritarian control, and people that think that some authoritarian control is necessary for society to function. None of these views are inherently wrong per se, but people that are in favor of one flavor or another are going to see champions of there version as being above criticism. Tankies are generally in favor of state-control, and so they take criticisms of Lenin and Stalin as personal attacks on them.
All of the above does make you dumb tho
"At least I'm not a tankie" is like, the lowest possible bar to clear
Fuck socialism, but fuck US imperialism too (can't keep markets free if you get invaded by the US when you refuse to eat their shit)
Do pro Khmer rouge people really happen? I've met tons of pro-DPRK loons but they seem to mostly draw the line at Pol Pot for some reason.
I've met only one online who I thought was serious, in some decade-and-a-half of pointless political arguments.
They... had other problems going on, to be sure.
Haha yupp all the pro-DPRK people I've met are dyed in the wool conspiracy theorists, many believe its secretly a utopia, way past Holomodor denial.
Are we excluding Malcolm Caldwell?
I may disagree with Communism as a political system (mainly because it’s literally never worked), but I don’t hate people who are communists.
Tankies make me want to transform into Liberty Prime, though. Fuck tankies.
Khmer rouge are big friends of mines
And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soulI bet if you pitched hard labor for a bowl of rice a day as a hip new diet you could find a whole bunch of people to try it
