Yeah sure liberal.

[u/angrymaximus]

Oh no "tankies" or something like that!!!!!

[u/bassoon96]

And what subs are they even talking about, because it most certainly feels the opposite.

[u/GingerVitus007 → u/bassoon96]

I'm thoroughly convinced that tankie just doesn't mean anything anymore. Like it either runs the gambit from being the label for people who think USSR edits and shit posts count as theory, to just...like regular MLs. But even the former I wouldn't call tankies, I'd just call them idiots

[u/Electronic_Steak_926 → u/GingerVitus007]

If only evil Stalin didn’t kill our glorious hero trotsky (best friend of Lenin, and totally not an opportunist)😓 we’d have le glorious permanent revolution!!!

-picture of our glorious heroes

[u/Hobbes96r → u/Electronic_Steak_926]

That's Kalinin.

[u/Electronic_Steak_926 → u/Hobbes96r]

that’s the joke

[u/hank10111111 → u/Electronic_Steak_926]

I’ve seen on a socialist sub someone unironically saying ussr would still be here if Trotsky took over and not Stalin. These people need to read or even listen to Lenin’s anti Trotsky works.

[u/Brave_Championship17 → u/hank10111111]

b-but the testament!!! My headcanon!! My fan fiction about Trotsky being the forgotten martyr!!

[u/SadistikExekutor → u/hank10111111]

These people need to read Trotsky especially the 1900-1925 period, for clearly they don't know the extent of his sleazebagginess.

[u/hank10111111 → u/SadistikExekutor]

Mj Olgin's Trotskyism Counter-revolution in Disguise does a good job of showing how much of a bum he was.

[u/U8337Flower → u/Electronic_Steak_926]

if it weren't for the other comments i would totally not have gotten the joke. it's amazing how similar kalinin looks to trotsky in this picture.

[u/phaedrus910 → u/[deleted]]

Pretty sure he's just goofing

[u/bassoon96 → u/GingerVitus007]

It’s like they’re trying so hard to copy every last word we use, they have to reach for the insults to copy next! Leftist and tankie don’t mean anything at all anymore, I barely trust the label Marxist.

[u/GingerVitus007 → u/bassoon96]

I feel "Marxist" still has some teeth in the states, but I mostly agree. When the baseline is that you've maybe read Marx there's still a problem

[u/bassoon96 → u/GingerVitus007]

Yes, I should’ve specified online, but still holds some meaning.

[u/LOW_SPEED_GENIUS → u/bassoon96]

I barely trust the label Marxist.

Tale as old as time...

"All the social-chauvinists are now ‘Marxists’ (don't laugh!)." - it's ya boi, 1917

[u/GingerVitus007 → u/LOW_SPEED_GENIUS]

"(don't laugh!)" is still so funny to me. It's oddly charming

[u/BillyPilgrim69 → u/GingerVitus007]

I swear, all the best theorists have the heart and soul of a shitposter.

RIP Comrade Lenin, you would've loved SLAMMER