reported a conversation about modernising education, in which Tony Blair said: "I'm with George Walden on selection." Campbell recalled: "DM [David Miliband] looked aghast... [Blair] said when it came to education, DM and I were just a couple of old tankies." In 2015, Boris Johnson referred to Jeremy Corbyn and the left wing of the Labour Party as "tankies and trots", the latter referring to Trotskyism. Elsewhere The term tankie has been used in English-language social media to describe communists, particularly those from the Western world who uphold the legacies of Communist state leaders such as Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. While generally used pejoratively, some Marxist–Leninists have reappropriated it and used the term as a badge of honor. The Taiwanese left-wing magazine New Bloom alleges that many modern tankies are members of the Asian diasporas of English-speaking countries. In particular, members of the Chinese diaspora searching for radical responses to social ills such as xenophobia against Asians are drawn to tankie discourse. This modern conception of tankie has also been described as "diasporic Chinese nationalism". In 2022, New York magazine observed that in the US "[s]o-called tankies don't make up the majority of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) membership or wield much power within the broader left, but they do exist", and that "[l]eftists from other countries have been contending with the American tankie for years", quoting activists from Hong Kong and Poland. See also 50 Cent Party Brezhnev Doctrine Chinese nationalism Little Pink Red fascism Regressive left Taistoism Tank Man Vatnik (slang) Explanatory notes References Citations General and cited references Anti-Stalinist left Communism Communist Party of Great Britain Marxism Political slurs for people Socialism Stalinism