The “tankie” is essentially just anyone that upholds existing socialism as legitimate, warts and all. It doesn’t mean we like the warts, it means we like the whole, and that we believe that these socialist projects will continue their progressive movements. It’s our job to fight against sanctions and warfare against these countries, as these never result in improved conditions but instead the bleakest reaction.
It’s incredibly common in the west to let the perfect image of socialism in our heads lead us into becoming enemies of socialism in real life, as in being real socialism comes with imperfections, flaws, struggles, and problems. This attitude, however, results in socialist words and imperialist actions. Comrade Jones Manoel describes this attitude very well in Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture.
All states, as they exist, are the instruments by which one class protects its status and oppresses others. Socialist states, where the working classes have gained control, necessarily build up millitaries, police, espionage units, all manner of authority in order to protect the gains of revolution.
This authority is a reaction to ongoing class struggle internally and imperialist aggression externally, and this two-front war is different from imperialist countries in that imperialist countries wage war on their own working classes domestically and the global south externally, while socialist countries do so against capitalists and fascists internally and imperialists externally. The class character is flipped, of course it requires authority, but this is necessary until the death of imperialism and later the abolition of class struggle.
The “tankie” is essentially just anyone that upholds existing socialism as legitimate, warts and all. It doesn’t mean we like the warts, it means we like the whole, and that we believe that these socialist projects will continue their progressive movements. It’s our job to fight against sanctions and warfare against these countries, as these never result in improved conditions but instead the bleakest reaction.
It’s incredibly common in the west to let the perfect image of socialism in our heads lead us into becoming enemies of socialism in real life, as in being real socialism comes with imperfections, flaws, struggles, and problems. This attitude, however, results in socialist words and imperialist actions. Comrade Jones Manoel describes this attitude very well in Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture.
All states, as they exist, are the instruments by which one class protects its status and oppresses others. Socialist states, where the working classes have gained control, necessarily build up millitaries, police, espionage units, all manner of authority in order to protect the gains of revolution.
This authority is a reaction to ongoing class struggle internally and imperialist aggression externally, and this two-front war is different from imperialist countries in that imperialist countries wage war on their own working classes domestically and the global south externally, while socialist countries do so against capitalists and fascists internally and imperialists externally. The class character is flipped, of course it requires authority, but this is necessary until the death of imperialism and later the abolition of class struggle.