Define Tankie? I'm an authcom and I think I have seen one person use it as a slur correctly...
I get you don't have to defend the choice and you do you, but people too lazy to read recently using it as a catchall for authcom is absurd.
Edit: in retrospect, don't even know why I'm arguing this here. I have a lemmygrad acct for commieposting, this account is for hornyposting and they're only the same thing when pictures of young Castro are involved...
Authoritarian, as in I believe a strong state is important to facilitate the transition to communism and safeguard against imperialist and capitalist interest.
Once the dialect is complete and communism has been achieved, that authoritarianism can be revisited, but that's another conversation.