#((tankies))

[freegazafromhamas]

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

[vigilantsycamore]

Power to the Workers*!

*The term workers here excludes anyone whose self-employed, because that's petit bourgeoise. Also any artists or office workers because again, that's petit bourgeoise. Also anyone whose job is illegal or who has to beg for money, because then you're filthy lumpen with no revolutionary potential. Oh and anyone who works in agriculture, because peasants are all inherently reactionary. Oh, and industrial workers because they're the vanguard of fascism. But other than that, power to the workers!

[asharkapologist]

I posted this on an anti-tankie leftist subreddit and it got hundreds of upvotes, so I decided to post it here as well.

Pretty hard to tell them apart sometimes.

(Apologies to my girl Rumi, I’m sure she’s not a tankie. And Jinu’s got problems, but at least he’s not a Russian troll.)

[hummingbird-hunter]

The thing that most baffles me about tumblr commies is not their political views or actions but the fact that they seem to be living in some sort of alternate history where ussr was good

Like some of the stuff they say is like. Where did you even get that from. One google search can prove you wrong. There aren't any sources, historical or anecdotal, that even remotely support what you're saying. Where did you even get that from

"In ussr you got your own free apartment and didn't have to work" and the earth is flat and the moon is made of cheese. What the fuck are you even talking about

[the-microphone-explodes]

Well for one thing, you (or the West for that matter) didn’t create the word genocide, it was coined by a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin. In his book, the Axis Rule in Occupied Europe he showed his research of the way the Nazi occupied Europe and narrated how he thought the crimes the Nazi committed against the Polish during their occupation came down to 5 main policies that displayed their will to completely destroy the Polish nation which included:

1) The mass killings of Poles

2) Bringing “serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group”,

3) Planned deterioration of living conditions "calculated to bring about their destruction

4) Implementation of various "measures intended to to prevent births within the group" such as promotion of abortions, burdening pregnant women, etc.

5) Forced transfer of Polish children to German families

He used these instances as proof for the Nazi plan to completely terminate the Polish identity and these markers are still used by the Genocide Convention as proof of genocidal intentions. He also used this word to describe the atrocities that Nazi committed against the Jewish people during the Holocaust. Lemkin also spent the rest of his time advocating for an international convention to stop the rise of “future Hitlers”, and on December 9, 1948 the U.N. authorized the Genocide Convention, which had many of its clauses based on Lemkin’s own research and proposals.

Also this is a very narrow idea of racism and discrimination. Anti-semitism was rampant in American and Western society years before Hitler came into power. I mean in 1942, American literally turned away a boat load of Jewish people seeking refuge. People didn’t look at Jews and think “Oh man they look just like us, so their murders must be important and we have to create a word that describes their condition and the crimes being committed against because we care sooooo much about them”. In reality, most people didn’t really given a shit about all of the Jews being murdered, only when America and the West was being directly threatened by war did they retaliate.

So no, the West didn’t coin the word Genocide to describe the atrocities that Nazi Germany inflicted because the victims looked like them or whatever, the word was created by Polish-Jewish lawyer to describe the oppression that his people were put under.

[magnetothemagnificent]

What does tankies mean?

"Tankies" is a term used to describe people whose ideologies align with authoritarian communists. They often valorize past or current authoritarian communist regimes, especially the USSR and CCP. The term "tankie" arose from the fact that the regimes that they valorize employ/ed tanks and other violent tools to suppress dissenters and force compliance. Tankies either don't care about that aspect of those regimes, pretend it's not real, or they actively support it.