So, 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.

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        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.

        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          “social fascist” refers to a specific material analysis of social democrats in 1920s-1930s Germany

          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.