In that "tankie" is just a pejorative for a communist, yes. I'm a Marxist-Leninist, and I uphold AES as legitimate.

Workers of the world, unite! ☭

For those who don't know what a "tankie" is, it's essentially a pejorative for "communist." I recommend the Prolewiki article on "Tankies," as well as Nia Frome's essay "Tankies."

For those that want an introduction to Marxism-Leninism, I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, check it out!

I'm a liberal. I know the power that democracy bestows: vote.

Fighting fascism? Vote hard.

Fighting genocide? Vote harder.

Fighting cancer? You guessed it, just vote.

Vote solves everything, vote is beautiful.

I'm a moderate and believe in supporting the lesser of two evils, which means critical support for enemies of US imperialism. I'm also something of a centrist because I believe anarchists and Marxist-Leninists and other left tendencies all have good ideas.

So yeah, I'm a moderate centrist.

I am in a superposition of being a tankie and not being a tankie at the same time.

Tankies consider me a lib because I dislike DPRK.

Libs consider me a tankie because I dislike "the west".

Oh well

I'm an anarchist though I do get called a tankie quite a lot as a pejorative.

I'm opposed to all states. That said as someone who lives in the west I don't really care to spend a lot of energy being mad about what my governments state enemies are doing.

'democracy' in capitalist states is a cruel facsimile of actual democracy. If you don't have money for rent you might as well be unpersoned, corporations are people and money is free speech.

Tankie is when a third worlder socialist shares the most Milquetoast leftist opinion.

I'm still in doubt of what a tankie is, even though I've now seen it mentioned 1000 times. Also why is it called that?

Yes.

That answer is only for my own country America, I do not have strong opinions for other areas and countries.

And I realize the term is broad, and gives connotations I do not intend.

A socialist movement that is backed by force, and not using democratic methods, would save far more lives than it would destroy.

Americans do not understand democracy because they do not understand, at a fundamental level, that ballot counts need to be witnessed and recounts always allowed.

They cannot be taught that. This removes reform by democracy.

But when reform is imposed on by force there are many who would disagree . So the revolution would need to defend itself. That means time and time again, this would happen repeatedly. And the cost would be horrible.

Of course my preferred solution would raise new problems, and a rise of a new elite would have to countered, and history shows that is hard. But I think because tens of millions of Americans will die if this revolution not happen, then it’s worth it

Yes

(Or at least I hope so lol)

Yes

No in the sense of back when anarchists used it to mean ML/Stalinist/AES types. No idea right now where the word seems to have no meaning. I don't think I've heard a definition of "tankie" that described my politics at least so probably still no. In general you should just say what you mean.

nice try, CIA