So another tankie tumblr user (l-etat) went from being a ML to pretty much a neo-nazi overnight. What causes so many tankies to...
Option 1: It’s this great (sarcasm) new thing called the “Fourth Position”, where you take what remains of much of the pro-Soviet left, put them alongside the nationalist/Fascist right, and use their tendency to hate on America/American imperialism to cross-pollinate their reading material. Aleksander Dugin’s been spearheading it in Russia. It’s actually been around for a while, and you can see it when, say, somebody who normally gets published in Liberty Lobby gets an article in Counterpunch. RT has also picked it up, probably to some degree because it’s the natural position of Russia to appeal to both right and left wingers to come to its aid, and also because it’s got a relationship with globalresearch.ca, which has made itself a home for where the far right and far left intersect.
Option 2: It’s the natural trajectory of all of us to end up as Neocons, Anarcho-Capitalists, and Fascists as we get older.