From: arthursackman@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 10:59:29 PM UTC-4, ScottW wrote:   
   > As a refresher, a tankie is a leftist who believes that the root of all evil   
   in the world is American (and to a lesser extent, European) imperialism. No   
   one in the world has agency. Everyone and everything is a pawn of evil   
   Americans and their CIA.    
   >    
   > and it lives on the left. Not the right but on the left.    
   >    
   > I put amoral party stooges who will vote their party no matter what as   
   almost as nuts as a tankie.    
   >    
   > ScottW   
      
      
   Wiki:   
       
   "Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express   
   support for one-party communist regimes that are associated with   
   Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by   
   anti-authoritarian leftists,    
   including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic   
   socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen   
   increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well.[5][6]   
      
   The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to   
   describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed   
   the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).   
   Specifically, it was used to    
   distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks   
   to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising,   
   or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.[7][8]   
      
   The term is also used to describe people who endorse, defend, or deny the   
   crimes committed by communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin,[9][10] Joseph   
   Stalin, Mao Zedong, Enver Hoxha, Pol Pot, and Kim il-Sung. In modern times,   
   the term is used across the    
   political spectrum to describe those who have a bias in favor of illiberal or   
   authoritarian states with a socialist legacy or a nominally left-wing   
   government, such as the Republic of Belarus, People's Republic of China, the   
   Democratic People's Republic    
   of Korea, the Republic of Nicaragua, the Russian Federation, the Republic of   
   Serbia, the Syrian Arab Republic, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.   
   Additionally, tankies have a tendency to support non-socialist states with no   
   socialist legacy if    
   they are opposed to the United States and the Western world in general,   
   regardless of their ideology,[4][11] such as the Islamic Republic of Iran."   
      
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