To be fair, in the comments are some sources that made me go :bruh:

https://www.reddit.com/r/COMPLETEANARCHY/comments/p75ca8/context_unncessary/

Edit: I did find a “tankie” that says “prolonging the civil war + US occupation would be worse than a Taliban peace”, also coupmed with "the immediate fall of the Afghan military is proof that the Taliban are more legitimate rulers than the US puppet government". See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1i0ipzS754

  • please_dont [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I agree but i rarely see them analysing the bunch of things spanish anarchists fucked up during that time that had nothing to do with conflict with other communist groups . Or understanding the actual history and timeline and groups involved in the spanish civil war and what where the numbers and options of anarchists and where the disagreements with the popular front happened and what and how much actualy fighting happened between leftists groups and how much it contibuted to their failure etc

    This isnt analysis . Its regurgitating a talking point of " anarchists, revolution?? ,catalonia, based, tankies, bad and jealous, backstabbing cause evil, ruined project"

      • please_dont [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        of course im talking about online or in general the average anarchist that would spout these buzzwords . I never suggested that there isnt theoretical or academic examination of anarchist experiments within anarchist literature . There is everything for everything within leftist theory and literature and i have read anarchist writters writting about revolutionary catalonia. Just that its depressingly rare in anarchist circles that whatever historical understanding there is of that historical instance goes beyond the general buzzwords and surface level victim understanding i stated earlier and into that analysis and conclusions that do exist. You can claim this about any number of historical situation or experiement for any number of tendencies and mostly there is truth to that but i think the spanish civil war is a perticularlu egregious case, especially since its a primary example used by a lot of anarchist or libsocs demonize and other-ize historical and contemporary communism based on it and enter a "they want to shoot us" histeria