Even if you disagree with them, Trotskyists are not tankies, simple Marxists aren’t tankies, leftists curious and exploring different theories aren’t tankies, and ffs anarchists like myself are not tankies.
I feel like “tankie” indicated a very specific worldview at one time, but it’s been used lately a lot to mean things like “doesn’t agree with nations supporting oppression and inequity up to and including genocide” – which is drastically at odds with how I’ve seen the term used in the past, no?
I get what you’re saying but Lenin & Trotsky(and those who come after) didn’t exactly have ‘clean hands’ and if MLs/trotskyist acknowledge this it begs the question what reforms to their ideology do they think would prevent these horrors?