Edit for clarity: I'm not asking why the Tankie/Anarchist grudge exist. I'm curious about what information sources - mentors, friends, books, TV, cultural osmosis, conveys that information to people. Where do individuals encounter this information and how does it become important to them. It's an anthropology question about a contemporary culture rather than a question about the history of leftism.

I've been thinking about this a bit lately. Newly minted Anarchists have to learn to hate Lenin and Stalin and whoever else they have a grudge against. They have to encounter some materials or teacher who teaches them "Yeah these guys, you have to hate these guys and it has to be super-personal like they kicked your dog. You have to be extremely angry about it and treat anyone who doesn't disavow them as though they're literally going to kill you."

Like there's some process of enculturation there, of being brought in to the culture of anarchism, and there's a process where anarchists learn this thing that all (most?) anarchists know and agree on.

Idk, just anthropology brain anthropologying. Cause like if someone or something didn't teach you this why would you care so much?

  • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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    3 hours ago

    here on Arendt

    https://web.archive.org/web/20241108153956/https://www.jpost.com/opinion/hannah-arendt-white-supremacist-456007

    Her own words are enough lol, have you considered that forced desegregation is totalitarian???

    https://www.normfriesen.info/forgotten/little_rock1.pdf

    Mark Tauger on Applebaum’s shoddy Soviet scholarship

    https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/review-of-anne-applebaums-red-famine-stalins-war-o

    • REgon [they/them]
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      4 hours ago

      Appreciated. You can always archive an article to avoid giving clicks

        • REgon [they/them]
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          3 hours ago

          I usually use the internet archive https://web.archive.org/ but there's a few different ones out there. You can also use it to bypass paywalls