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Please help me understand Hexbear.
Removed by modSo, since coming here, I've been accosted left and right by ML's calling me a Lib for not being a ML. Essentially that's what it's come down to.
My personal philosophy aligns with Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Bookchin. I consider myself an Anarcho-Communist or Communalist, depending on the situation, I suppose.
I firmly oppose fascism and authoritarianism. I believe in direct democracy and the inherent goodness of humanity.
I really thought that I had found a place where leftist thought was going to be welcomed, but so far I have not found it here. All I've found are hateful people who want me to leave.
Like I said elsewhere, it's almost as if they don't want new people to join their cause. Like they're actively pushing people away who could have the potential to learn, and who have explicitly come here to learn and to engage in good faith.
I just don't get it. I feel like our cause will never come to fruition because of these types of attitudes.
You should report these types, mods do a pretty good job stamping out sectarianism when it pops up.
If you read his posts and check the modlog, you'll see he's been going off about "tankies" and "red fash" left and right. He was already banned once for sectarianism two weeks ago, he's just gotten back on it.
Anyways, not gonna intrude further on the Anarchist comm. :mao-wave:
Ah so that's it?
Yeah, he's been having a bit of a normal one. Asks leading questions, acts like an ass, and gets surprised when no one appreciates it.
I was going to say, the mods do a pretty good job of banning sectarianism.
They do, it's nice. Keeps this place workable for all of us. :left-unity-4:
I still think "social fascist" should be considered sectarianism and banned tbh.
I'm not trying to get into a slapfight about this in the anarchism comm, but "social fascist" refers to a specific material analysis of social democrats in 1920s-1930s Germany (whether or not it's correct is beside the point). I don't see why it would be sectarian, considering it refers to social democrats, and no one here would claim social democrats as comrades.
I've never seen it used against Anarchists/MLs/other Socialists, and if it was it would obviously be incorrect and sectarian.
I think the issue is (1) applying it to a wildly different context, like the modern U.S.; and (2) flinging it around at people who do not call themselves social democrats (some of whom even make a point to distance themselves from social democrats), much less endorse anything the social democrats of prewar Germany did.
The left is too small to play fast and loose with "not my comrade, so they're basically Nazis." That's poison.
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I've been reporting them. It doesn't seem to do any good.
Should we ping one of the mods and get them in here? Not sure which one to alert.
I don't know. At this point, I'm just almost willing to throw in the towel. People don't seem to want me here. They just want to call me names and insult me.
Touche.