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  • I interact with enough tankies to tell you in advance.

    In the view of tankies, Russia isn’t imperialist due to some weaseling with how they define imperialism in economic terms.

    The US, on the other hand, is as imperialist in tankies’ minds as it is in reality.

    Thus, to to them, Russia is waging an anti-imperialist war with the long-term goal of establishing a “multi-polar” world.

    Thus, the tankie conclusion is that NK is heroically sending in the soldiers to help fight imperialism.

    I see no need to try and explain why this is wrong. That’s left as an exercise for the reader.


  • To be fair, the name Antifa is used pretty much exclusively by radical anti-authoritarian left groups.

    The libs don’t organise into black blocs to beat up fascists, they write to their congressman to ask for stricter hate speech laws.

    The tankies, despite creating the first group to call itself AFA, don’t participate in them much in the modern day because they try to subordinate such things to their party, which goes against the decentralized ethos of what most people call Antifa.

    This leaves anarchists, libcoms, and a small smattering of demsocs and Trots. Thus it is completely fair to refer to “Antifa” as a left-wing phenomenon.