They explicitly called themselves vanguardist. That is the specific aspect of Marxism-Leninism that people who complain about “tankies” describe as
advocat(ing) … for invading neighboring communities and forcing them to accept their form of socialism at gun point.
Again, if I gave you a bunch of anonymized quotes, one from a principled member of the BPP and the other from “tankies”, you would not in a million years be able to pick out the panther, because they are exactly the kind of people who get smeared as “tankies”. It’s also very telling that you talk about a “definition of tankie” but didn’t actually give one, despite the lack of a definition being explicitly what we are talking about.
They explicitly called themselves vanguardist. That is the specific aspect of Marxism-Leninism that people who complain about “tankies” describe as
Again, if I gave you a bunch of anonymized quotes, one from a principled member of the BPP and the other from “tankies”, you would not in a million years be able to pick out the panther, because they are exactly the kind of people who get smeared as “tankies”. It’s also very telling that you talk about a “definition of tankie” but didn’t actually give one, despite the lack of a definition being explicitly what we are talking about.