The kind that thinks communism is the same as nazism and thinks communism is when the government does things.
I hate liberal brain worms.
They seriously do as much damage to the left as fascists by punching to the left and spreading capitalist anti-left propaganda. They overall weaken leftism and help fascism.
We need more left unity, folks. Fash ain’t gonna bash themselves.
Isn’t it always funny that even the most ardent left-unity people only exclusively expect the anarchists to compromise?
Means cannot be disentangled from ends.
I don’t think asking leftists to not punch left is asking for much of a compromise
i’m no ML but anarchists should read the jakarta method.
anarchists should be able to see that cuba, china, vietnam, laos, and north korea are far preferable to american hegemony despite all their flaws, and that contextually an anarchist uprising in cuba would immediately cause the island to fall to imperialists. You don’t have to like states to understand that you kinda need one when the dominant mode of geopolitics is relations between states.
i’m here for anarchism when the bigger threat of capitalism is gone or if anarchists can get something going in the imperial core but i don’t see any examples of successful movement building comparable to the BPP.
The “anti-sectarianism” of Hexbear is just as you show it is, “MLs, but anarchists can hang out if they shut up”. They want anarchists to be useful idiots to them.
My brother in Christ I have loudly posted pretty much the entirety of Kropotkins Mutual Aid and no one has ever told me to shut up.
I was talking about the Reddit style libs that call themselves leftists and then proceed to call actual leftists evil authoritarian commie tankies, I’ve seen both anarchists and MLs be called tankies here by libs that stumble in.
Asking anarchists to stop criticising statists and being against statism and vanguardism is big enough of a compromise that you’re basically asking them to stop being anarchists.
But funnily enough, no left unity person, no matter how vehement, ever asks MLs to stop believing in or expressing their beliefs of anything.
Anarchists are not allowed to shit on MLs here just as ML are not allowed to shit on anarchists. No one here is going to dogpile you or ban you for not wanting a state unless you shit in MLs in the process. Just as MLs are allowed to want a state as long as they don’t shit on anarchists.
99% of the people who use the term “tankie” are NOT anarchists
Principled and theoretical anarchists who organize get my respect, Social liberals with delusions of spontaneity get my scorn, just like any patsoc liberal who pretends to be a “communist”
You don’t get to define what is a “true anarchist” and what isn’t, much less exclusively based off of if they use a word you don’t like or not. I don’t care about your respect, I am merely pointing out a dynamic that constantly happens in this community and those similar to it.
I mean I can literally define what an anarchist is because there’s a historical and theoretical structure to anarchism and if it isn’t followed you’re simply not an anarchist
Anarchism isn’t an ethnic group, it’s a economic sociopolitical philosophy someone follows and 99% of people who use terms like “tankie” do not follow it
Very funny that the post was about the “anti-tankie left” and you went “oh that’s me that’s me!”
“You believe in what you believe in! You are very owned.”
If I didn’t oppose the USSR and China, and by proxy, those who vehemently defend and excuse them, I once again, would not be an anarchist at all.
Opposing a defunct state and China? These are your priorities in a world governed by capitalism and American hegemony?
Isn’t it always funny
Stop using that “totally not mad” Reddit-tier opener. It makes your smugposting even worse.
Complaining about Reddit-type speak is the Reddit-type speak of complaining about things.
Yes, if you see yourself as an anarcho-natoist, we’re gonna need you to compromise on some of your principles. The people of Russia, even if you don’t like them, don’t deserve to be pillaged again by NATO.
Who said anything about NATO? Do you just have an imaginary anarchist in your head to be mad about? Do you think an anarchist is someone who watches a lot of Vaush?
So you do support the people of Russia in their ongoing struggle against decades of NATO aggression?
Hey folx, I have to move houses, will not have internet for a while, so I’mma disengage. Despite the usual smug and mocky tone, I thank you for actually engaging and not just banning me. I will leave with this:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book#toc27
This chapter and the one after it are only slightly longer than On Authority. Read it if you are interested.
