Reactionary is used to attack people like a belief system, but it is not. It is acted like an ideology when it is just an insult, that’s not to say I can’t think the insult fits. But you can pretty clearly tell when something is an insult based on if anyone would reasonably describe themself as it. Just own up to it and insult someone if you want to rather than use tankie pseudoscientific slanders that justified killing and imprisoning “counter-revolutionaries”.
The tankie belief system is that someone either ally or reactionary- don’t accept their rules.
Reactionary is used to attack people like a belief system, but it is not. It is acted like an ideology when it is just an insult, that’s not to say I can’t think the insult fits. But you can pretty clearly tell when something is an insult based on if anyone would reasonably describe themself as it. Just own up to it and insult someone if you want to rather than use tankie pseudoscientific slanders that justified killing and imprisoning “counter-revolutionaries”.
The tankie belief system is that someone either ally or reactionary- don’t accept their rules.
‘Reactionary’ as a term and insult way predates tankies. I’ll be good goddamned if I let them take a perfectly cromulent word.
It was a term used to describe political opponents before tankies also, so ofc that is a convient word for them