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The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.
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Why can't anyone there give a "non-tankie" example of an actual communist organization that accomplished anything of note? I'm not talking about their local friends, but a movement, a country, whatever. There's never any example.
Succeeding is oppressive. Romanticizing an endless struggle is what gets the goods
Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture (2020)
Posting the traditional article
yfw the Islamic Republic of Iran has done far more to liberate humanity than every single "non-tankie" communist movement put together
I actually have gotten examples before. I've gotten completely warped ideas of Catalonia, Maknovist Ukraine, and the Kurds in Syria. And wouldn't you know it all three of those examples I've heard have been framed in the context of how they would have been successful movements but the dastardly tankies betrayed them at the last moment.
It's deeply unserious. There are things to learn from those three examples but the romanticized fairy tale stuff just isn't useful. It's so absurd to me because baby brained liberals learned the exact opposite lesson from those historical examples. It's not "don't trust tankies" but the lesson is truly "do not trust the western powers, they're just using you as a wedge to disrupt their more powerful enemies."
All 3 of these movements were stamped out :skull:
the Kurds in Syria that have integrated happily into the Zionist ISIS government
posting is praxis, how dare you imply otherwise