Chat does it make me a Tankie if Death To America?
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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From a Mega Man arcade game:
Something something, para bellum.
Cuz you ain't done nothing if you ain't been called a tankie
Sorry, but anything short of lying down and dying quietly for the fascists makes you worse than them, somehow
The importance of being a tankie:
Fourthly, while Gandhiji thus deserves praise for his role in overcoming the major weaknesses of the national democratic movement — making the movement really national and all-class by bringing in the large masses of the hitherto unorganised rural poor — it should not be forgotten that he had always been and continued till his death to be afraid of the rural poor acting as an independent force. While he was all for mobilising them in the struggle for freedom and democracy, he was keen that they should act under the leadership of his own class, the bourgeoisie.
Fifthly, not only in relation to the rural poor, but also in relation to the working class and other sections of the working people, his was an approach which, in actual practice, helped the bourgeoisie. His theory of trusteeship, his insistence on certain moral values as the guiding lines for any political activity, the skillful way in which he combined his own extra-parliamentary activities (constructive programme and satyagraha) with the parliamentary activities of his lieutenants, the characteristically Gandhian way of combining negotiations with the enemy even while carrying on mass direct action against him — all these proved in actual practice to be of enormous help to the bourgeoisie in (a) rousing the masses in action against imperialism and in (b) preventing them from resorting to revolutionary mass action. This ability of his to rouse the masses and yet to check them, to launch anti-imperialist direct action and yet to go on negotiating with the imperialist rulers made him the undisputed leader of the bourgeoisie.
E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Oh I can see the lib reaction now:
These tankies keep fawning over Stalin but got a problem with Gandhi?? Who's next Mother Theresa?? 🙄
Liberals are happy with their idealism personified in Gandhi; their privileged apologism allows them to rationalise the daily terror against the toiling masses of India under a liberal democracy - the 2-3 million deaths (at least) per year more than China since independence (which includes liberal method of death count in China including unborn children due to women's emancipation or deaths of fascists) and about a third of the population being illiterate are the "charms" of a third world country for them.
Most of these liberals would (1) not be alive if it weren't for Stalin (2) would not have the concessions afforded to them if it weren't for Stalin.
o-of course not! ¬_¬'
Defending from reactionaries, that's a damn dirty lib