I read it the opposite way, that they think people label themselves as Marxists because the communist label is too bad to be open about, whereas Marxism gives an intellectual flair
I don't think the OP is using "Marxist" as a softer label if they're pairing it with "tankie" though. It seems to me that they're trying to make some kind of implication that the tankies and the marxists aren't real communists, they're just authoritarians with a communist aesthetic?
idk, I'm not fluent enough in brainworms to decode this
I read it the opposite way, that they think people label themselves as Marxists because the communist label is too bad to be open about, whereas Marxism gives an intellectual flair
I don't think the OP is using "Marxist" as a softer label if they're pairing it with "tankie" though. It seems to me that they're trying to make some kind of implication that the tankies and the marxists aren't real communists, they're just authoritarians with a communist aesthetic?
idk, I'm not fluent enough in brainworms to decode this