I prefer to think of it as meaning “a person to my political left who is making a point I can’t refute”. But the actual practical difference there is minimal…
Oh definitely usually yeah I see it used by fascists all the time to try and attach leftists to global military domination that capitalists are obviously responsible for, for example.
It means what it has always meant - “a person who is correct too early”.
I prefer to think of it as meaning “a person to my political left who is making a point I can’t refute”. But the actual practical difference there is minimal…
Bernard Knox, 2001: The Confessions of a ‘Premature Anti-Fascist’
Holy fuck that’s even vaguer.
What issues are we talking about here and what’s your stance lmao.
It’s not vague at all. It is invariably used as an admission that the “tankie” person is correct, but the speaker can’t admit that yet.
Correct about what
About whichever they are being called a “tankie” over.
Oh definitely usually yeah I see it used by fascists all the time to try and attach leftists to global military domination that capitalists are obviously responsible for, for example.
I am not aware of any examples that don’t fall under the usage that I described.
Fair enough! That is the majority of times I see it used too
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