[ SECRET POST #5786 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5786 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Never heard of the term before.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's not necessarily that common if you're not a politics nerd but I think it's seen an uptick in use recently because of the self-described leftists who are supporting Putin in the Ukraine war.

[(Anonymous)]

What would I call my friend who calls himself a communist but hates Putin and supports Ukraine?

He hasn't told me this word for word, but I think his position on the USSR and such is "Well yes, they were very bad, but so is capitalism!!!!"

[(Anonymous)]

I think the term would be "a good fella"

[(Anonymous)]

Still a tankie I'd say. Though from what I get from your description, he's not really informed about actual communism, but is just enamored with the western fairytale-communism idea.
Capitalism isn't good, but it's the way lesser of two evils. There's a very good reason Easterners have been fighting so hard to get the Soviet crimes recognized as on par with nazi crimes

[(Anonymous)]

Thinking that the USSR did good things does not in and of itself make one a tankie. And this guy, apparently, doesn't even think they did good things.

I mean I would personally call myself an anti-communist but I don't think everyone who describes themselves as a communist is automatically outside the bounds of reasonable belief.

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly what makes one a tankie. And this guy, as I said isn't really a communist. Most westerners who call themselves communists, from what I've observed, are actually just anti-american/anti-capitalist and since "communist" is a convenient label for someone against american valuse, they've co-opted it and revisioned it as the best thing ever while ignoring actual history. It seems to be similar with this guy since he's presenting communism as the better option.

[(Anonymous)]

Thinking that the USSR did good things does not make one a tankie. Thinking that the USSR did good things, *and* that therefore the gulags and the purges and the genocides and the invasions of other countries to force them into the Warsaw Pact and on and on and on were all justified and even good, is what makes one a tankie. The second part is actually the crucial part of the definition.