Why "Tankie" is a Dumb Term -- A Response to Vaush
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Video explaining the tankie position Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:24 Part 1: Are Tankies Bad For the Left? 2:00 Part 1A: MLs Helping progress Worker’s rights 3:05 Part 1B: MLs Helping progress women’s rights 4:28 Part 1C: MLs Helping the decolonial movement 5:03 Part 1D: MLs being good for racial issues in the US 6:14 Part 1E: Vaush’s Communities bad takes on Imperialism 9:35 Part 2: What Socialist Societies have had to deal with 11:42 Part 2A: Guatemala 12:47 Part 2B: Indonesia 13:55 Part 2C: Chile 15:21 Part 3: On the necessity of “Authoritarianism” 17:05 Part 3A: Historical examples of “Authoritarianism” being the most effective way to stop imperialism 18:47 Part 3B: “Open democracy” as Vaush calls it, is basically impossible under Imperialism 22:15 Part 3C: Statistically demonstrating that “authoritarian” leftist governments are far better than “open democratic” ones at defending themselves 28:08 Part 3D: lesser of two evils, Trump and Biden comparison

I wish that more leftists were like this author. We don’t have to overwhelmingly agree with each other. What we should be doing is making serious, continuous efforts to understand each other; efforts that don’t with us hastily dismissing the other as ‘crazy’, or ‘stupid’, or whatever oversimplification feels most useful at the moment; efforts that involve empathy. I’m not even talking about ‘left unity’ — that’s unlikely to survive in the long term — but conscious, informed neutrality; an absence of hostility that we arrive at through our patience and reasoning. That is the approach that I want to see more of us practise.