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Why do these people gotta go embarrass us ðŸ˜
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
If you wanna go pick a fight. Keep the instance name out of your damn mouth. Fight your own battles.
It's a silly term we use for Marxist-Leninists and their fellow travellers because we never bothered to really come up with a less silly term for that part of the left that holds that brutally repressing the working class into automaton-like obedience will (somehow) result in communism descending from the heavens like the Second Coming... it's an oversight on our part, I'm afraid.
Unfortunately, liberals have finally learnt of the term... so now they call everybody that isn't a liberal or a fascist "tankie," too.
Ironically enough, the term tankie was first coined by Marxist-Leninists themselves.
And it was never a useful term. Which should have been obvious, because it was invented by British communists who are more in the habit of arguing and splitting into 14 different progressively more transphobic groups than anything else (somewhat joking here, but the British left does have a history of splitting and of infiltration).