rando895 @ rando895 @lemmy.ml

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Because capitalism was the first time money existed lol

I often see the term when someone questions whether or not something like Tiananmen square (from.your example) happened the way it is depicted in popular media. Questioning an event that (likely) is at least partially misrepresented due to it occurring in an "enemy" state should be a reasonable thing to do, especially when the state making the claims (USA) has a self reported record of interference in the affairs of others.

So then is tankie (supposed to be) used when someone uncritically supports a leftist state? The counter example would be (rightfully) pointing out a large prison population in North Korea as bad, while ignoring the larger prison population of the USA.

So tankie=uncritical support for NK/Cuba/china/USSR/Laos/Vietnam etc.

And bootlicker (to keep it balanced ;) = uncritical support for USA/Canada/Japan/France/Germany etc.

Is that about right?

What's a tankie?

That would require reading Marx lol. These hot takes usually come from reactionaries mimicking what they hear from other reactionaries/charlatans/media towing the stateline. Marx was wrong about some things of course, like the revolutions to a democratically worker owned economy would come from the industrialized centres. But knowing about the ideas which are critical of our current economic system is dangerous to a few, and freeing to the majority.