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Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.
The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions. The term has extended to describe people who endorse, defend, or deny the actions of communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong. In recent times, the term has been used across the political spectrum and in a geopolitical context to describe those who have a bias in favour of anti-Western states, authoritarian states, or states with a socialist legacy, such as Belarus, Cuba, China, Syria, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela.




History and usage






= In the United Kingdom

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Tankie originated in the UK as a term for hardline members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). This Stalinist or "tankie" wing of the CPGB was associated with the views of the strong CPGB presence in British trade unions. Journalist Peter Paterson asked the Amalgamated Engineering Union official Reg Birch about his election to the CPGB Executive after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Paterson recalled:

When I asked him how he could possibly have sided with the tankies, so called because of the use of Russian tanks to quell the revolt, he said "They wanted a trade unionist who could stomach Hungary, and I fitted the bill."
The support for the invasion of Hungary was disastrous for the party's reputation in Britain. The CPGB made mild criticisms of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, which they justified as a necessary intervention, although a hardline faction supported it, including the Appeal Group who left the party in response. These events then led to much of the subsequent internal politics of the CPGB to be viewed along the lines of "tankies versus Euros".
After the Prague Spring, the term was used to describe Communist party members of Western countries who had supported the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact states, of which Czechoslovakia was a member. It was also used in the 1980s to describe the uncritical support the Morning Star gave to the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. According to Christina Petterson, "Politically speaking, tankies regard past and current socialist systems as legitimate attempts at creating communism, and thus have not distanced themselves from Stalin, China, etc."
The term continued to be used into the 1980s, especially in relation to the split between the reform-minded eurocommunist wing of the CPGB and the traditionalist, pro-Soviet group, the latter continuing to be labelled tankies. The term is sometimes used within the Labour Party as slang for a politically old-fashioned leftist. Alastair Campbell reported a conversation about modernising education, in which Tony Blair said: "I'm with George Walden on selection." Campbell recalled: "DM [David Miliband] looked aghast ... [Blair] said when it came to education, DM and I were just a couple of old tankies." In 2015, Boris Johnson referred to Jeremy Corbyn and the left wing of the Labour Party as "tankies and trots", the latter referring to Trotskyism.




= Modern Internet uses

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By 2017, tankie had re-emerged as internet slang for authoritarian socialists, and it became particularly popular among young democratic socialists. Left-wing writer Carl Beijer argued that there are two distinct uses of the term tankie. The original was "exemplified in the sending of tanks into Hungary to crush resistance to Soviet communism". More generally, a tankie is someone who tends to support "militant opposition to capitalism" and a more modern online variation, which means "something like 'a self-proclaimed communist who indulges in conspiracy theories and whose rhetoric is largely performative.'" He was critical of both uses. The Intercept journalist Roane Carey identified the "key element in the tankie mindset [as] the simple-minded assumption that only the United States can be imperialist, and thus any country that opposes the U.S. must be supported."
While generally used pejoratively, some Marxist–Leninists have re-appropriated it and used the term as a badge of honour. The Taiwanese left-wing magazine New Bloom alleges that many modern tankies are members of the Asian diasporas of English-speaking countries. In particular, members of the Chinese diaspora searching for radical responses to social ills such as xenophobia against Asians are drawn to tankie discourse. This modern conception of tankie has also been described as "diasporic Chinese nationalism". An instance of the modern usage is the description of those "who instinctively defend China based on the idea that it is an example of actually existing socialism resisting Western imperialism", in discussions around the persecution of Uyghurs in China and justify the "anti-terrorism" operations of the Chinese government.
In 2022, New York magazine reported that in the U.S. "So-called tankies don't make up the majority of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) membership or wield much power within the broader left, but they do exist", and that "leftists from other countries have been contending with the American tankie for years", quoting activists from Hong Kong and Poland. The term tankie has also been used in contemporary times to describe the defenders of anti-American leaders like former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or those who propagate pro-Russian narratives in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War. It has been applied to "elements within the self-identified [American] left that have soft-pedalled Russia's aggressive foreign policy and history of human rights abuses", according to Sarah Jones of New York.




In media


In the 2006 play Rock 'n' Roll by the Anglo-Czech author Tom Stoppard, the character Max, based on Eric Hobsbawm, discusses with Stephen what to read to hear what is happening in the communist party, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Their options are Marxism Today and the daily newspaper, the Morning Star:

MAX: Marxism Today? It's not so much the Eurocommunism. In the end it was the mail order gifts thing. I couldn't take the socks with little hammers and sickles on them.
STEPHEN: Well, Read the Morning Star and keep up with the Tankies.

MAX: The Tankies ... How the years roll by. Dubcek is back. Russia agrees to withdraw its garrisons. Czechoslovakia takes her knickers off for capitalism. And all that remains of August '68 is a derisive nickname for the only real communists left in the Communist Party.




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Explanatory notes






References






= Citations

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= General and cited references

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"What exactly are 'Trots' and 'Tankies'?". New Statesman. 9 August 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2019.




Further reading


Sullivan, Jonathan; Wang, Weixiang (1 June 2024). "Becoming Wanghong: How Foreigners Achieve Internet Celebrity in China" (PDF). East Asia. 41 (3): 201–222. doi:10.1007/s12140-024-09427-x.
Balci, Utkucan; Sirivianos, Michael; Blackburn, Jeremy (1 June 2024). "Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml" (PDF). Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops: 44. doi:10.36190/2024.44.

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Where does the term "tankie" come from? - Politics Stack Exchange

Feb 26, 2022 · "Tankie" originated as a label for westerners who backed the Soviet Union so thoroughly that they approved of the use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and/or the 1968 Prague Spring uprising. The violent repression of those movements made it plain that the USSR was as authoritarian as the Russian Empire it had replaced, that ...

What the heck is a tankie? : r/NoStupidQuestions - Reddit

A tankie is a member of a communist group or a "fellow traveller" (sympathiser) who believes fully in the political system of the Soviet Union and defends/defended the actions of the Soviet Union and other accredited states (China, Serbia, etc.) to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions.

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Apr 23, 2024 · The ship "tankie" comes from a 1935 issue of the magazine The Naval Review. I found the description of the "tankie" in a citation from a book titled "Fabulous admirals and some naval fragments" (Lowis, 1957), a compilation of stories about the Royal Navy written by RN commander Geoffrey Lyttelton Lowis. Here the relevant part (cited by Betts ...

What’s a tankie? : r/Socialism_101 - Reddit

Tankie is a derogatory word for communists (MLs, MLMs, MLHs) used by non communists. (Mostly anarchists and social democrats/demsocs) It's a term born from a near complete ignorance of communist history and communist political theory, mixed with decades of fascist and imperialist anti communist propaganda.

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Apr 4, 2016 · It's simplistic to conflate "tankie" with Maoists or people who defend aspects of the Soviet Union, because plenty of Maoists will admit the Cultural Revolution went too far or was a mistake, and many people who speak positively of the U.S.S.R. argue that Stalin's purges or the invasions of Hungary, Czechoslavkia, Afghanistan, etc. were also ...

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Jan 5, 2024 · Tankie usually refers to Marxist-Leninists, the school of thought developed by Stalin based on the writings of Lenin. The idea of it is that in order to achieve the stateless worker's paradise envisioned by Marx, there would need to be a dictatorship of the proletariat enforced by a communist vanguard party which would crush any dissent.

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Dunking on tankies from a leftist (anti-capitalist) perspective. A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian/ totalitarian regimes under the guise of socialism. The term originated from those who supported the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union.

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Feb 1, 2021 · Anyway tankie is thrown around by "left"-anticommunists of all types uncritically and without a coherent definition. A person using the word 'tankie' is a pretty good indication that they (the person using the word tankie) shouldn't be taken seriously This essay is a good criticism of the type of "leftists" who use the term 'tankie'

Ah yes, the Russian “anti-imperialist struggle” of ... - Reddit

Dunking on tankies from a leftist (anti-capitalist) perspective. A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian/ totalitarian regimes under the guise of socialism. The term originated from those who supported the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union.

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May 31, 2021 · When I was tankie I also was a class reductionist and even a reactionary at some point. I stopped being a tankie when I found out I am bi and I realized that the countries I support would either execute me or put me to hard labor for it. Everything I described here took place in around a year and a half. I was a tankie for almost a year.