• SomeDude@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      When the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, there were some british leftists who cheered for those tanks driving into Prague. They proved by this that they didn’t care about leftism, socialism, democracy or anti-imperialism at all - they approved the imperialism and militarism of the Soviet regime.

      Their praise for the rolling tanks is what gave them their name: Tankies.

      So, people who love North Korea, or defend russia invading Ukraine, people, who stand by even the most autoritarian, anti-democratic, militaristic, imperialistic regimes - just because they call themselves “socialist” or “communist” - are “Tankies”.

        • CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          And Stalinist, Maoists, and other authoritarian Communists.

          Usually they also “love” countries like North Korea, China, and for whatever reason (aNtI iMpErIaLiSm), Syria, Russia, and so on.

          Red Fascists. They use the same tactics of gas lighting and goal post shifting.

    • limbo99@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s the prog-lib equivalent of woke. It’s used dismiss leftists with out engaging with our arguments. The term has lite ideological or argumentative use.

      • Darorad@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Libs use it that way, actual leftists use it to describe fascists that think they’re on the left and like red flags.