Like I will nod my head as whatever capitalism or NATO or whatever has done. 'Yep, probably right, beyond awful'… But whatever the word/slur is, I draw the threshold at sheer inability to see self criticism, to an extreme. That’s a “tankie” to me.

I think would call extreme hyper capitalist apologists the same thing, where every awful thing capitalism and associated isms have done is just communist propaganda or whatever. That’s just too much for me.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

The problem with having your own definition of a social term is that whenever you use it, others all generally see it as a negative term for a communist. For what it's worth, I don't really see people unable to perform self-crit among Marxists, but I see the word "tankie" thrown nonetheless.