I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.
I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.
While someone’s political beliefs are highly multi-dimensional, there are two axes that are commonly used to define where someone sits:
Since there are independent axes, there are four quadrants:
That said, some people use tankie as cover for supporting socially authoritarian, economic right but formerly economic left countries(e.g. people who support Putin, who is not economically left in any sense).
Economy and social liberties are not independent axes. The mode of production of a society influences it’s social life and the liberties afforded.
Unless “you” are a corporation and then a taxpayer-funded bailout is almost sure to arrive.
This isn’t accurate.
For starters, the “libertarian/authoritarian” axis makes no sense. All states uphold one class while oppressing others. If we took a look at the Soviet Union, for the broad majority of society, social liberty increased dramatically. The economy was democratized for the first time, healthcare and education were free and high quality, working hours lowered while real wages rose, housing was free or low-cost, employment was full, women began to take serious administrative roles. This was all accomplished by the working class taking control from the capitalists and Tsar.
The state will always be a tool for control, but the question isn’t if it controls, but who? And for whose benefit? There isn’t a sliding scale of more or less control, but which class a society serves. Socialist states aren’t especially exerting authority, they just use it against capitalists, fascists, and reactionaries, instead of against the working class.
Finally, communists only support the Russian Federation to the extent that they oppose western imperialism, are a valuable trading partner for socialist countries, and have rising socialist sympathies. No communist wishes to adopt the Russian Federation’s economic model, we understand full well that the USSR fell 3 decades ago.
TIL that axes is the plural of axis and axe.
The opposite of authoritarianism would be libertarianism, the ideology that worships money, sees scamming as virtuous, and is mostly known for child predators and towns being overrun by bears.
There is a single axis of geopolitics. Pro CIA/Zionazi demonic supremacist corrupt/rigged/controlled democracy evil vs resistors. Tankies are just an insult to the resistors. Speech is controlled by establishment everywhere, and just as money is speech, money/CIA is terrorism that will destabilize and diminish any country that supremacist speech is not exterminated.