No. Not a tankie. It would be nice if autocorrect let me type tankie and not talkie. I had to cut and paste it I'm not proud.
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No, then yes, then no again.
Long story, won't explain, I don't remember many details since it's been years since I cared about any of this stuff; other than "Gonzalo did nothing wrong, there is no AES, CCP and Russia lost their way due to Deng in China and the assassination of Lenin in Russia blah blah I'm an ultra or maoist or something blah blah".
Open source movement is the only thing I care about now.
My understanding is that tankies believe that groups that have partially or completely followed far-left principles should be exempt from all criticism. I disagree. As long as it is honest criticism, it should not only be allowed but encouraged.
I've also heard that tankies are historic revisionists to an extreme. While I agree Western history is not telling us the real version of things, I don't think other countries are either. I won't say that an event happened one way or the other just because country A or country B says so. If historians and other experts are still debating an event and its details, I prefer to watch from a distance as I have no way to contribute to those debates.
So... no.
No
No.
Granted, I'm not on lemmy.ml either.
Maybe just yes or no isn't enough either. Maybe have someone post a picture of tanks in tienniemen square to prove they aren't a tanker.
Not that I know of.
No I'm not. Unfortunately one of the problems with tankies is they don't call themselves that most of the time. But I can confidently claim I'm not because when a fellow leftist disagrees with me on 5% of something, I gently explain why I believe what I do, and then proceed to not be mad if the petty difference continues.
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NO. We have had enough already
Nope, I'm for social democracy and think a healthy government is a balance between left and right. This balance has been lost lately.
I do believe that the discourse need some more leftism, however not of the stalinist (or Marxist-Leninist as people call it) kind.
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NO
I'm pro-socialism and heavily regulated capitalism.
All that far left Marxist Communist crap is for people who like to pretend that it doesn't fail every single time.
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