We Tankists: Reform-Leninism is Tankie-Leninism (On Reformed Tankie Doctrine: Do Not Touch US!)

30 (27) August 2025.

For an explanation of what Reformed Tankie Doctrine means in reality, see this companion article (here).

Comrades, now is the time to consolidate and collectivise the many revolutionary policies we have developed into actual revolutionary gains. Now has come the moment for Reform-Leninism to advance as a united ideology, to storm the stagnant fronts which have become betrenched against us.

On the (ultra-) Left we are met with incessant, hollow cries of ,,revisionist, revisionist!'', whilst on the (so-called) socialist Right, we are met with attacks on our Leninist heritage and on our very project to reform Marxism-Leninism into the optimal revolutionary ideology it ought to be. For it is the simple truth that liberalism and fascism will be together destroyed by Leninist Tankies who will not lie down. Let me be eminently clear on this point: the fiends of Reform-Leninism are the saddest, most pathetic clique of ideocrats to have ever coalesced, all to uphold a shallow, weary politic of orthodox 'graceful defeatism'. Many of them do not even advocate for this anymore, instead demanding that Atom and Leave be the basis of man's being, eschewing social-ism and commun-ism altogether! Away with you liberals, away shoo you, the shirkers of sacred duty!

Let me be eminently clear on another matter: we are not afeard to use the metaphorical tanks in our Red Arsenal. For too long have we been content to trade artillery shots with Bob, with the PCUSA, with the LMRC, the DSA chapters, the local Democrats, and recently, The Philosopher's Interior. Let that last one serve as a warning to our fiends: we sent heavy Reform-Leninist armour down the streets of the PhilInt. Those traitorous Yezhovites thought they should emulate the counter-revolution of Horthy's Rust-Shirted goons in 56, and what happened? The Tankies utterly dispersed the forces of reaction (rather than physically destroyed, as the Yezhovites should have it), saving both the movements of Leninism and Reform. You have been warned! We have abolished terroristic ruin, but we should be stupid not to practise repression where justified and legal.

Just as they did with Comrades Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin; Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Andropov— to say nothing of our Chinese comrades —the meek and timid liberal social democrat will strum off about our ,,horrid descent into totalitarianism'', which was a foreclosed inevitability. Why, just the other day, I heard a half-wit on The Young Turks say that Donald Trump wishes to become a totalitarian fascist like... (can you guess it?)... Xi Jinping (do not laugh! Ha ha!) The milk-water social democrats were never going to support us; as history has shewn, they should rather leap into the strong-arms of the fascists when faced with the spectre, not of Stalin or communism, but of old man provincial mayor turned isolated utopian senator Bernie Sanders. In the words of Comrade Stalin from outer-space, 'pathetic!'. We were never getting their vote of approval, nor do we want such a useless ballot in our hand. A mark of shame it should be.

Know this also. There will be nay more Moscow Trials song and dance: if you strike against Reform-Leninism in a hostile, empty, and uncomradely manner, we will deploy our tanks immediately, and loudly answer counter-revolutionary dissent. You have two choices. Either use the comradely infrastructure of discussion and debate established by Reform-Leninism, or do not touch us! Nay more tit-for-tat artillery shots, either. If you touch us with a ,,clever'' long-range or mobile artillery shot (id est opportunistic or disingenuous ,,criticism''), we will bury you in a barrage of precision and hailstorm criticism ourselves. Every line you have ever proposed or held will be set alight for all to see and judge you for.

Like the Soviet Union, we are a movement for peace, comradery, and productive dialogue. But neither are we fools to be manipulated and exhausted, for our patience and good will have red-lines (which the debate-bros love to test the reality of with their accusatory faux-charitability and good-faithism). The Philosopher's Interior broke standard operating procedure which had stood in place for years, all to fire some assassination shots at the Four Nosts and Stroikas. How was this not an assassination of Comrade Kirov situation? In relation to the serious gravity of the matter, who can say that our response was not reasonable and measured, by all circumstances? We deployed our tanks, accepted the editorial board's general surrender, and let them go freely. Their article is still available to public view and the identity of their publication is still intact (in adherence to the stipulation ruled by the Court of Socialist Hearing, here). If Comrade Stalin or Comrade Trotsky were around, should they be so lenient? Being a Tankie is preferable to being a Yezhovite, and so is meeting with one!

This is a short article detailing our frustration at the double-facedness of the Left, and why we have adopted Reformed Tankie Doctrine to respond to it. We are following from the guidance of our Comrade Nikita Sergeyevich, Comrade Leonid Ilyich, Comrade Yuri Vladimirovich, and Comrade Deng Xiaoping. With such wise and discrete teachers, I am certain that the policies of Reformed Tankie Doctrine, and its political counter-part, The Comrade Doctrine, are irrefutably the correct ones.

The Reform Lenin Banner shall not be allowed to fall to the wretched, hateful forces of counter-revolutionary reaction. Reform-Leninism is the new phase of revolutionising Marxism-Leninism for the century. To all the hostile reactionaries who would take the podium: DO NOT TOUCH US!