NO
I like having no boots on my neck, not just changing out what demographic is wearing it
NO
I like having no boots on my neck, not just changing out what demographic is wearing it
I havent figured out yet what a tankie is.
You know how a conservative calls anyone to the left of them "woke"? Well it's exactly that but with democrats.
NO
When the current government is not doing a very good job at maximizing the happiness of its citizens, it's a natural reaction to look for answers from a different type of government. America has some enormous problems with capitalism as it currently operates, and communism offers solutions to many of those problems. The issue is the top-down power structure. Democracy keeps the most power in the hands of the general population, and i will always oppose giving that up. Beyond that, I'm open to any solutions for modern problems, public or private.
I really recommend asking this question on lemmygrad or hexbear, bc you'll get really good in-depth answers about the nature and differences between what's labelled as "democracy" in capitalist countries, vs the reality of whether citizens of a capitalist dictatorship have anything resembling democracy.
Yes.
I don't care to hide my aims; I don't move sheisty like some of y'all favorite Democrats do. Til all are fed and all have beds; my skin is Black, my star is Red.
NO
Tankie has been shifting way beyond its original meaning to just be a vague leftward stab, but being an anarchist and everything I don't think it applies to me just yet
I'm as tankie as they come.
i may or may not have a tanksona, but that doesn't make me a tankie.
I don't consider myself a tankie, because I'm an anarcho-syndicalist.
I've been called a tankie for suggesting that workers should organize tenant unions to kill the apartment bidding wars in NYC. I've been called a tankie for pointing out that their image of a tankie needs to almost have power to be any kind of threat worth warning against, and there are no tankies anywhere near power with the global rise of fascism. I've been called a tankie for asking someone to clarify what they meant by tankie. I've been told that scientific socialism both is and is not tankie behavior. The term is utterly meaningless. I've come to the conclusion that it's part of a 3rd red scare in an effort to sow division amongst the anticapitalist left.
YES
At least if we go off the Lemmy definition. I don't self identify.
Yes. I get called one everytime i defend or advocate for anything left of Bernie Sanders. "
"Communism is the riddle of history solved, and knows itself to be the solution."
Is as true today as it was when Marx wrote it almost 200 years ago.
NO
Neither do I self-identify as a tankie, I don't think anyone who'd identify themselves as tankies would think of me as one.
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