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Way too many times I've been talking with
someone who called me a tankie, and I ask them
why it seems like China and Vietnam have such
high approval for their respective states. That's
when it starts coming out. They'll say communism
is just a better fit for their culture, or that the
people there are more easily brainwashed, or that
the approval ratings are all lies. It's so racist and
disgusting.
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axont [any,they/them] &3 7 • / 7 hours ago
The only common thread I've noticed is that it
always refers to an imperial core person admiring
something foreign. You're somehow not a tankie if
you're actually from China and you're a Marxist-
Leninist. In that case you're just an authoritarian.
But if you're from Canada and you say nice things
about China? Then you're a tankie.
There's some kind of nationalist brainworm built
into the term. There's some kind of conception that
foreigners just do socialism incorrectly, but white
people can do it properly through...I don't know,
voting every 4 years, or begging for it nicely or
making a utopian settlement in the woods. But if
you're a white person who wants revolutionary
socialism, you've allowed scary foreign devils to
pollute your mind and you're a tankie now. Telling
liberals that being a "tankie" is the overwhelmingly
most normal position for communists worldwide
shortcircuits their brains. They can only conceive
of three types of communists: Idiot white
teenagers from imperialist countries, cynical
dictators, and brainwashed foreigners who can't
think properly because they're foreign.
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