I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.
I see just as much if not more complaining about “tankies” as on subs like subredditdrama, it’s not that leftist
I literally saw a guy earlier today in that one large memes thread trying to convince people that Eastern European countries yearn for the USSR days.
Only tankies try to do that lol.
A lot of people there do yearn for the return of the USSR. You can argue about why, but the polling is quite clear that many people miss socialism
Tankies are a tiny subset of extreme far leftists which even far leftists have a right to despise, though.
if they truly are a “tiny subset” then why even spend the time to complain about them?
Because they’re very vocal online, are annoying, and also give actual leftists bad rep. If you’re promoting egalitarianism and distributing social power among everyone, you wouldn’t like people who support authoritarism to share a label with you.
Tankies are a tiny subset of extreme far leftists which even far leftists have a right to despise, though.
Things that are mainstream in British politics would get you called a tankie by american liberals though, because they have no left and have no idea what level of radicalism is required to get welfare and healthcare in europe and then maintain it.
Jeremy Corbyn defends the USSR.
Diane Abbot defended Mao on national tv.
John McDonnell’s job is “to overthrow capitalism”. Or the time John threw Mao’s little red book at Osborne. Etc etc.
Mainstream elected British MPs in Britain’s soft left, saying and doing things that have absolutely zero negative effect on anyone’s opinion of them in Britain. But anything they believe or say would get them called a tankie by americans. Corbyn’s christmas message a couple years ago extolling the virtues of the Black Panthers (an ML party) would send some people here into a fit, especially if they noticed the CCCP figure in the bottom right of the video at 2:10.
We have people like Frankie Boyle on national television funded by the taxpayer saying we should kill all the rich. and making pretty clear tweets about his own political position(before he quit managing the account himself). It’s just a completely different environment.
Defending the USSR is indeed tankie shit. If the UK has a problem with communists being represented and taken seriously, they should do something about that
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I don’t think any of the examples you linked are things which could credibly be called Tankieism in my eyes. Corbin saying that those regimes on balance did more good than harm is not the same as directly defending genocide as some of the programmers of this site do.
I’m a Bernie Sanders democrat and disagree with both the Tankie positions of the programmers and those you link to, but I don’t consider both to be examples of Tankieism.
Things that are mainstream in British politics would get you called a tankie by american liberals though, because they have no left and have no idea what level of radicalism is required to get welfare and healthcare in europe and then maintain it.
If you think that, then I don’t think you understand the term Tankies. Tankies are apologists for the genocides and wrongdoings of Communist regimes.
Just wanting welfare or healthcare doesn’t come anywhere near the level needed to be called a Tankie.
Jeremy Corbyn is a notorious antisemitic twat who was so shit people literally voted for Boris fucking Johnson to avoid having Corbyn in power! How terrible do you have to be to get people to support Johnson?