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. left-unity-4

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    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.

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      You don’t have to like states to understand that you kinda need one when the dominant mode of geopolitics is relations between states.

      You are asking me to accept that a state is necessary - i.e you are asking me to stop being an anarchist. Once again, the only one that has to compromise in this “left unity” is me, and the compromise is so big I have to completely stop being myself. On your end though, there is nothing. This is exactly what I’m pointing out. You’re just saying it in nicer words.

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          Funnily enough it is the statists that most often kill the anti-statists “in real life” but okay, you do you buddy.

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            This is only the second time in my life I’ve engaged with someone who used the word “statist”. The first guy was a libertarian, and the second is you, an anarcho-natoist. I guess the implication is that a state is inherently bad. What the state is used for is inconsequential. Funnily enough, in the real world we evaluate what’s goid and bad based on material consequences, not baseless ideals pulled out of your ass. This has the same rigor as liberalism.

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              This is the usual tactic of attacking your use of specific words instead of the essence of what you’re actually saying. Use inspect element and replace “statist” with the word you’d like me to use instead. I’m not gonna do that for you.

              Anarchism isn’t baseless or pulled out of anyone’s ass. You can disagree with it, but to claim literally no material analysis of the state and/or its consequences, or the relations and dynamics of power and hierarchy exists, is just plain ignorance, no different from a conservative feeling the authority to look down on marxists when they have only skimmed the communist manifesto. If you are interested I can link you to some things, if you are not, just own up to it and say so.

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              What are you on? Revolutionary states killing anarchists is just an objective historical fact. I’m not even talking about the common stories brought up about Makhnovshchina or Kronstadt, every single revolutionary state has done it. You can look it up. Is part of the “left unity compromise” to blind yourself to actual things that happened?

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        that’s not what i said at all. i said you need a state to play the game of states that the external hostile states force you into, that’s not needing a state full stop.

        what’s the anarchist solution to contemporary geopolitics? i’m genuinely unaware and happy to change my line if you have something more successful than rojava to offer.

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          That’s a more fair claim, excuse me for misunderstanding.

          Can you elaborate a bit more on what specifically are you asking about? Do you mean how to resist agression from states? How to avoid being co-opted or hijacked?

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            nation states don’t recognize or respect non-state organizations of people (well. corporations, which are surely worse than liberal states) and if you don’t have a formal structure for them to recognize they will simply trample over you, would they not?

            perhaps it’s my own ignorance but i’m aware of zero modern anarchist anti-imperial projects at the level of viet nam, dprk, laos, or cuba. You don’t have to like everything they do (or china or the ussr) but it should be really obvious that those states are less of an enemy of the people than amerikkka and i would think they are therefore deserving of critical support in the face of western imperialism.

            it’s a priority thing. i think anarchism has a shot in the US because of how fucked our culture is, and i would support any movement regardless of tendency that got anything going, but the most successful leftist project here in a century was the black panthers. Anarchist thought needs to explain how an anarchist society would survive the onslaught of capitalist imperialism right now and if you want more credit from fence-sitters there needs to be something durable and independent that’s bigger than food not bombs.

            if there’s an anarchist project doing for its people what the cuban revolution did with literacy and hospitals and… please tell me about it i would love to move there.