One of the stranger developments of the past five years has been the resurrection of the word tankie. It's time for an explainer.

Aristotle: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
    41·
    1 year ago

    Good read.

    I started to get into theory only recently, so I am kinda just happy that I was able to understand this at all (:

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      1 year ago

      Me too. I didn’t understand all the references because I don’t know the history. I read it twice, and still didn’t know who CLR James was, now I do. Sometimes it feels like I could read for months, and still not have a grasp of it all.