“liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.' Mikhail Bakunin
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"Tankie" means supporting Russian invasion into Ukraine, not "a communist"
Tankie is authoritarian “communism”. Tankies tend to support the brutal regimes of Stalin, Mao, and more recent Russian imperialism such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Needless to say these regimes supported by tankies are far from the communism envisioned by people like Marx, which was achieved much more closesly in anarcho-communist revolutions, such as the Ukraine’s anarchist territories and the Paris Commune.
I still believe you are needlessly reducing the scope of that word to only communists. Many blood thristy supporters are "tankies", while being fascist, or simply dumb
A communist would believe in "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" (Karl Marx).
However Lenin, and to a greater degree his authoritarian successors acted according to the slogan, "To each according to his contribution", which even they admitted was not in accordance with true communism. Lenin even used the slogan, “He who does not work, neither shall he eat“.
From Lenin, The State and Revolution, 1917
Unfortunately their “first phase” evolved into an authoritarian regime instead of the stateless heirarchyless utopia Marx envisioned.