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Used to describe a member of a Communist subculture on the internet who genuinely believes that countries such as China and North Korea are global champions of social justice and Communist utopias. The group has particular traction amongst 2nd generation Asian migrants in the west who incorporate these regimes into their own identity struggles.
If you believe China is a global force for anti-racism and equality, and put a hammer and sickle in your twitter handle, you're a Tankie.
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1) Communists who are anti american imperialism to the extent that they defend cartoonishly bad people/countries as long as they claim to be socialist and challenged the interests of the U.S. or other western countries. They can be found defending Joseph Stalin, Bashar al-Assad, and North Korea.
It began as an insult to members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), who supported the Soviet Union's response to the Hungarian Revolution (1956) and the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia (1968)
2) People who fetishize the aesthetics of 20th century socialist states and treat communism like a social group rather than a political ideology; not everyone who calls themself communist on Twitter is a tankie.
Tankie: "I try not to argue with people Lenin would have shot."
T: "Come back after you've read theory, Radlib."
T: "Happy birthday, Stalin! 🎉🎊"
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Tankie: A word describing a delusional communist supporter that denies the countless genocides committed by the USSR and other communist/socialist countries.
Person 1: The ccp are great and don’t systematically kill Muslims. Also all Muslims are terrorists and deserve to be systematically murdered.
Person 2: I really hate you 14 year old genocide denying tankie that knows nothing about anything.
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Tankies are anyone who apologizes/defends/supports authoritarian/fascist/totalitarian/capitalist/generally right-wing regimes while pretending to be a communist/socialist/general leftist.
The "tankie" ideologies you commonly run into are Stalinist/"Marxist"-Leninist, Maoist, National "Socialist", National Bolshevik.
That guy worships Stalin, he's a tankie, not a communist.
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Someone who idealises military pageantry, communist iconography, and milatary strength including tanks in favour of a far left-wing communist/socialist regime to a borderline fascistic degree.
Wow, that Tankie sure does like tanks
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a Slur against people in The Thomas The Tank Engine Twitter Fandom
"look at those fucking Tankies always causing drama"