I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.

  • Korkki@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    A slur mainly on the internet against those leftist (usually Marxists-leninist) who oppose western interventions, sanctions, coups and wars against countries and governments labeled as “authoritarian”.

    originally used by UK communists party trotskyist wing in support of Hungarian -56 crushed uprising against those who opposed it, calling them tankies. Vaguely same as “stalinist”, but it pretty much has lost that meaning in modern use.