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minus-squareCleverOleg [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoI have actually found the “tankie” moniker to be useful IRL: Tell someone you’re a Marxist-Leninist and you just get a blank stare. Tell someone you’re a socialist and they think you mean you’re simpatico with AOC and Bernie. Tell someone you’re a communist and they will just shut down and not hear anything else you say. But “tankie” seems to convey enough truth - that you support past and current efforts from AES states to build socialism - to be useful.
minus-square@MarxMadness@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoI have a hard time imagining anyone who would stop listening at “communist” but not “tankie”
minus-square@AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoI might be wrong but I don’t think ‘tankie’ has seeped into the offline world yet
I have actually found the “tankie” moniker to be useful IRL:
Tell someone you’re a Marxist-Leninist and you just get a blank stare.
Tell someone you’re a socialist and they think you mean you’re simpatico with AOC and Bernie.
Tell someone you’re a communist and they will just shut down and not hear anything else you say.
But “tankie” seems to convey enough truth - that you support past and current efforts from AES states to build socialism - to be useful.
I have a hard time imagining anyone who would stop listening at “communist” but not “tankie”
I might be wrong but I don’t think ‘tankie’ has seeped into the offline world yet