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    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Street Fight is great. I'm tankie as shit but I love Street Fight because they keep it at the same level where Anarchists and I can break serious bread. Stolen labor value? Petty business tyrants? Shitting on the clock? Bonding over shared miseries?

      Oh I am there for that shit. I dunno if its a deliberate choice or if they're just too laid back to get into it, but while firmly "Anarchist" the SF boys keep it at a more entry level, and imho, most of the disagreements between Red and Black are at the upper echelons of theory and stuff like that. Street Fight keeps it accessible and succinct, and in that simplicity, they also keep themselves on target. Leftist infighting, while I do think it has a point and a reason, does, as a wholly unavoidable consequence, waste our time on each other and not our mutually shared foe. I value our contradictions and our fights because I respect Anarchist positions and consider them fellow travelers, a good Anarchist critique can ground a Communist opinion in a way that no Capitalist criticism can offer. That's valuable as hell. But it can be a mutual waste of time, especially if its all done in bad faith etc.

      Sorry I'm using a thousand words just to say "Street Fight is For Everyone"