Even if you disagree with them, Trotskyists are not tankies, simple Marxists aren’t tankies, leftists curious and exploring different theories aren’t tankies, and ffs anarchists like myself are not tankies.
I feel like “tankie” indicated a very specific worldview at one time, but it’s been used lately a lot to mean things like “doesn’t agree with nations supporting oppression and inequity up to and including genocide” – which is drastically at odds with how I’ve seen the term used in the past, no?
They’re wild. I’ve observed them many times and even talked with them a few. I believe their stance for any given discussion is whatever they feel makes them appear right to the most people at the time.
I honestly think they just try to get a rise out of people so they can argue and gain approval from others like them.
I tend to agree. They don’t appear to have any consistent ideology whatsoever.