“Tankie” is a caricature. The idea of a tankie is the ideal vision of a McCarthyian Communist. In reality, the overwhelming majority of people labeled as such don’t actually fit that label, it’s more of a way to cast an image of someone’s positions based on, say, support for AES countries, and twist that into the evil Commie Pinko that haunts the dreams of 1960s children in the US.
In other words, it doesn’t matter if the caricature “tankie” is evil, such a caricature has no real relevance in reality. Unless you mean Gonzaloists, supporters of Gonzalo and defenders of Pol Pot are “tankies,” in which case I’d say the case for them being evil is thinking individual acts of terrorism towards peasants is a sufficient replacement for revolution.
“Tankie” is a caricature. The idea of a tankie is the ideal vision of a McCarthyian Communist. In reality, the overwhelming majority of people labeled as such don’t actually fit that label, it’s more of a way to cast an image of someone’s positions based on, say, support for AES countries, and twist that into the evil Commie Pinko that haunts the dreams of 1960s children in the US.
In other words, it doesn’t matter if the caricature “tankie” is evil, such a caricature has no real relevance in reality. Unless you mean Gonzaloists, supporters of Gonzalo and defenders of Pol Pot are “tankies,” in which case I’d say the case for them being evil is thinking individual acts of terrorism towards peasants is a sufficient replacement for revolution.