Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml to Slop.@hexbear.net · 3 months agoThe sheer historical revisionism that the anti-communist left does whenever the Black Panthers are mentioned!hexbear.netimagemessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up175arrow-down1imageThe sheer historical revisionism that the anti-communist left does whenever the Black Panthers are mentioned!hexbear.netSaymaz@lemmygrad.ml to Slop.@hexbear.net · 3 months agomessage-square48linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBlakey [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoIf the black panther party weren’t tankies, the term is truly meaningless. They were explicitly, openly Marxist-Leninist, an ideology you may know as “Stalinism”.
minus-squareAljernon@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoMost Tankies are MLs but not every ML is a Tankie.
minus-squareBlakey [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoSo it’s a meaningless term. Good to know.
minus-squareCowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months ago“Tankie” is just a pejorative for “supports existing socialism.” It means absolutely nothing of substance.
If the black panther party weren’t tankies, the term is truly meaningless. They were explicitly, openly Marxist-Leninist, an ideology you may know as “Stalinism”.
Most Tankies are MLs but not every ML is a Tankie.
So it’s a meaningless term. Good to know.
“Tankie” is just a pejorative for “supports existing socialism.” It means absolutely nothing of substance.