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I find that when people use this term I get suspicious. It could be used to describe authoritarian Stalinists, Maoists, Marxist-Leninists, or just communists/socialists in general. I wish that posters would be more specific, because everyone and their mother has a different definition of "tanky". It often comes across as a thought-terminator. I'm not up to speed on the Lemmy beef, so I have no idea who's right, but I've seen like 10 posts about tankies and none of them really defined the term, which is very frustrating.
Ostensibly left (soc/comm) pro authoritarian.
Here's what the sum of all human knowledge has to say about it.
I read the first paragraph and it was pretty much exactly what I said. I'm not confused by the meaning of the term, if that's why you shared it.
Tankie would be ml or militant left
See?
This dude's embarrassingly wrong.