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Download The arguments based upon unfounded claims and empty accusations of propaganda. It’s a disaster of a fashion parade by people who have no idea about the still-living experiences of the Soviet world. Bin this arrogance, the dialectical nonsense, the cultural insensitivity and sheer ignorance of Tan ism. !e don’t have a choice. Stalin "id Some #ings !rong. Stalin’s state was dramatically racist, sexist, and destructive and the e$ects of his failures are still ringing out through the %astern Bloc. Ignoring, denying, or re-writing !hat !ent !rong only undermines socialist and communist movements INTRODUCTION today. If we can’t &nd a way for our movements to progress from this, then #is )ine was compiled with the goal of making accessible a criti*ue of I’ll happily watch them die out. Tan ies are regressive and, fran ly, a fuc ing +tan ism,, a reactionary ideological position that seems to be trending on the embarrassment to the 'e(. 'e(. -uch li e the alt-right, which in ./01 appeared to be an internet phenomenon with little potential to gain a foothold in the streets, tan ies have fared well in the era of ascendant nationalisms. In 2orth 3merica they are ma ing the 4ump from Twitter to our offline communities. #ose of us who believe in a world of radically expanded freedom and the end of domination must contend with the zombi&ed corpse of the ./ th 6entury’s authoritarian 'e(. In 7%verything 8ou %ver !anted to 9now 3bout Tan ies, But !ere 3fraid to 3s ,7 -i e :arman uncovers the history of the term +tan ie, and its relationship to various strains of -arxism-'eninism. #en 7%nding the Idealization of the ;ther7 draws on Su-lin 8u’s criti*ue of ;rientalism to explain why some *ueer people of color in 2orth 3merica support repression when it is committed by +socialist states., Finally, in +Is =enocide "enial 3nti-Imperialist 2ow>7 "arya ?ustamova confronts the fetishization of the @SS? while expounding on the harm caused by those denying or minimizing genocide and war crimes. Contents I. %verything 8ou %ver !anted to 9now 3bout Tan ies.....................Aage . II. %nding the Idealization of the ;ther..................................................Aage 0B III. Is =enocide "enial 3nti-Imperialist 2ow>.......................................Aage .C Page 32 ?ussia and its government. 3long with the instrumentalisation of Kictory EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED "ay, this has led to Stalin’s popularity rising to a +record high, among ?ussians today. :e denounces all attempts to dredge up negative accounts of TO KNOW ABOUT TANKIES, BUT Sovietism precisely because it undermines the primacy of the ?ussian state and the rampant ?ussian nationalism it spreads. WERE AFRAID TO ASK Autin is arming and supporting violent states and armies around the world. :e is brutally repressing '=BTL and women's’ rights within his own nation By -i e :arman, Dlibcomorg and imprisoning protestors. :e has solidi&ed a system of oligarchy and -arch Eth, ./0E corporatism, a form of state-regulated capitalism which centres the profits of the government and its aristocracy. :e has restored the ?ussian ;rthodox 6hurch in the government, bolstered by repressions of other religions throughout the nation. :is foreign policy has seen the occupations andNor invasions of 6hechnya, Ingushetia, South ;ssetia, 3b hazia =eorgia, @ raine, and 6rimea. :e is perpetrating daily massacres in Syria. Saying all of this doesn’t mean +Autin is worse than 3merica or BritainO, It means +apply the same critical lens to Autin’s ?ussian Federation as you do to !estern nation-states,. Tan ism often goes hand-in-hand with a particularly gruesome form of 3ssadism. #ese are the chemical weapon deniers Por even celebratorsQ, the militarists, so-called + ebab removers, recapitulating the same excuses of +!estern propaganda” and endlessly bootlic ing ?ussian geopolitical What does tankie mean? interests through any possible man or medium. ;n ;ctober .Fth 1956, Aeter Fryer, a member of the 6ommunist Aarty of 8et, many seem to feel that ?ussia is an oppressed underdog which needs its =reat Britain, and correspondent for its paper the !ee ly !or er, arrived name and reputation protected. It’s somehow become impossible to in :ungary. #is was four days into an uprising of wor ers calling for consider that the ?ussian <ederation in all its forms throughout modern wor er controlled socialism. Factories had been ta en over nationally by history has been little more than a mirror of the @S Pand its lap-dog, the wor ers councils, in a demonstration of wor ers self-organisation that was @9Q. ?ussia has colonised or attempted to colonise most of central 3sia. It’s unprecedented at the time, and the &rst stri e on its scale in an %astern-bloc aligned itself with the cruellest forces in the world Pnow including the @S3 country. ;n the Bth of 2ovember, ?ussian T1B tan s rolled into Budapest to and the @9Q. #roughout each of its eras, it has systematically cleansed itself suppress the uprising. Street &ghting continued until the 10th 2ovember, of religious and ethnic minorities. It’s fully terrible. It is imperative that all although the wor ers councils held out for two months. Tan ies re-evaluate their priorities and direct their dubious critical thin ing Fryer returned to the @9 horri&ed by the Soviet repression he had seen, but capacities elsewhere. 'eave this mess behind. his attempt to write about it for the "aily !or er was suppressed I the editors were stic ing to the official @SS? line that the entire uprising was a fascist counter-revolutionary plot and refused to publish anything Tan ie "iscourse is over for me. I’m not engaging in it anymore. It contradicting that narrative. !hen Fryer wrote up his experiences anyway, surrounds a set of ideological referents which respond to nothing in the he was expelled from the 6A=B. :ungary 0G1H split 6ommunist parties living or dead world. It is a toxic networ of arguments and counter- Page 2 Page 31 outside of their nations, particularly from ?ussia and 6entral 3sia. Few across the worldS many who had supported the @SS? up until this point people from %urope travel beyond -oscow and St. Aetersburg. Aost-Soviet became disillusioned and split or le( individually, while those who stayed voices are already marginalised in !estern spaces. #e le(-leaning agenda loyal to the @SS? earned the epithet 'tan ies'. simply has to &ght against this. 3(er 1956, the @SS? was to invade 6)echoslovakia in 1968, then For example, a few years ago, 6hechnya started trending on every platform. 3fghanistan in 1979. 3t the same time, +!here is 6hechnya” was searched in =oogle 4ust over 178,/// times. International Business Times broke the &rst %nglish-language article +6hechnya detains 100 gay men in &rst concentration camps since the Are all Tankies Marxist-Leninists? :olocaust., !hile the original Mtan ieM epithet grew out of the split in the 6ommunist Firstly, 6hechnya isn't actually a country Pnot that it shouldnMt be, but the Aarty of =reat Britain, the geo-political 'anti-imperialistM support for the fact that so many individuals and news outlets are writing it as a nation in @SS? and any state aligned against the @S3 has also been popular with itself shows how little they understandQ. some Trots yist groups. Secondly, ?ussia, which 6hechnya resides within Pfor now I freedom and In the 0GE/s it was revealed that the Trots yist !or ers ?evolutionary Aarty 4ustice for the 2orth 6aucasus will comeQ, has been systematically detaining, Pfamous for the involvement of actress Kanessa ?edgraveQ had been torturing, and by extension illing '=BTL fol s for a long time now. I have receiving funding from 'ibyan intelligence services and passing details of to add, this probably isnMt the M&rst concentration camp since the holocaustM I Iraqi dissidents in the @9 to Saddam :ussein. ethnic 6hechens were not long ago put in what I would call concentration In the @S3, the !or ers !orld Aarty and Aarty for Socialism and camps. #is isn't one of those +how did you not now this has been 'iberation both originated in a split from the Trots yist Socialist !or ers happening for 3=%S>>>, arguments, but when the IBT reports that Aarty under Sam -arcy. -arcy split from the S!A over the position it too 6hechnya is doing it, why does this trend instantly? 3 particular ?ussian on :ungary '56, although somewhat bizarrely, also accused those who Pand %uropean and 3mericanQ Islamophobic agenda currently mar s the, supported the uprising of being Stalinists. Both parties describe themselves predominantly -uslim, 6aucasus and 6entral 3sia as a space of terrorism as -arxist-'eninist now, and no longer cite Trots y, but their origination and general barbarity. was in the Trots yist theory of the @SS? as a Tdeformed wor ers state.’ In a Rash-bac to denial of Stalin’s crimes against ethnicities, the So support for crushing of wor ers movements is shared by both some @nconditional-?ussophiles are aligning themselves with Islamophobic -arxist-'eninists and some Trots yists, one explanation for this is that the forms of racism once more. #us the people and campaigns defending every actual politics of Stalin and Trots y were not very di$erent. facet of the Soviet @nion eep bac sliding into support for Autin and the modern state of the ?ussian Federation. For example, in early 2016, a historian exposed new accounts of Stalinist crimes via the unearthing of a Are all Marxist-Leninists tankies? mass grave containing 9000 bodies from the 1930s, Pyeah, deny that Tan iesQ #e signi&cance of :ungary was not only the uprising itself, but that it now a remembrance site nown as Sandarmo h.
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