https://www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/i7ergp/be_gay_do_crime/g12gy3h/

EDIT: Thank you for the support. I was feeling pretty shit and needed this.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      You can. Tankies reject being "ultra" and are willing to accept imperfect adaptations and changes based on material conditions in order to achieve imperfect but step-change improvements to the current situation. This includes accepting compromise with liberal positions such as using some markets, for example. You can certainly sling the word reactionary at that. They'll fiercely debate that Marx discusses the fact of imperfect socialism and imperfect communism will exist and that's ok, just as the paris commune was imperfect, change is a process, but you're definitely within your right to sling the word at tankies and enter into those debates. Or just use "lib brained" if you like. Both work for the same thing. There is absolutely a different definition between the liberal "return to a past state" and the marxist usage though, it must be documented somewhere and I'm sure someone better-read than I am with a better memory will know where.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah probably simplistic. My point was that the marxist use is different. I don't care about the common use in liberal spaces anyway, there's a very clear different usage in socialist spaces in the perjorative and that usage is best described as an equivalent to "lib-brained".

          I'm not really the one "diluting" the word here. Engels and Marx used it this way to attack other socialists all the time, you can find it in exactly the same usage in Lenin and Rosa's period too so it sustained the same use for over a century. It is absolutely not some new thing.