The Gang Goes Full Tankie: The Results and Prospects of Digital Stalinism

February 25
1h 36m

Episode Description

This week, the boys got together and discussed the perpetual battle between the digital Stalinists and the digital Third Campists. To what extent have those demonized as tankies been right or wrong? To what extent do any of these archaic political designations matter?

 

New Tankies and Digital Neo-Stalinism: How the Conservative Left is Incubated

https://europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article73701

 

Don’t Be a Tankie: How the Left Should Respond to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

https://theintercept.com/2022/03/01/ukraine-russia-leftists-tankie/ 

 

What Is a Tankie-and Why You Don’t Want to Be One

https://medium.com/@ksutherland2727.ks/what-is-a-tankie-and-why-you-dont-want-to-be-one-0fb84611233a 

 

Everything you ever wanted to know about tankies, but were afraid to ask

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-always-against-the-tanks#toc2 

 

Why are ‘anti-imperialists’ defending dictators? 

https://www.972mag.com/tankies-left-authoritarians-imperialism/ 

 

The ‘Anti-Imperialism’ of Idiots

https://itsgoingdown.org/the-anti-imperialism-of-idiots/ 

 

JFK Files Reveal CIA Role in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising

https://www.joewrote.com/p/jfk-files-reveal-the-cia-role-in

 

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