We just scorn AES (like Chinese capitalism) in favor of WESTERN CAPITALISTS (like anarchist Rojava)
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2025
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What even is a tankie? supporting the USSR using tanks to crush the Hungarian revolution is too broad anybody who opposes capitalism could get called a tankie.
Anybody who calls someone a tankie loves capitalism actually if you don't support everything about the DPRK you actually hate socialism and love western imperialism.
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.
I know
I was just making fun of tankies because they often say things like "you just call everyone who doesn't like capitalism a tankie" while they call other socialist who don't like their authoritarianism a lib or whatever
Perhaps I should have put a /s