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.

  • Guy_Dudeman [comrade/them,he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Hexbear is pretty US-centric, as English forums are, but do you think there are zero Chinese users? “You’re an X” and “that guy who says you’re an X is right” are the same. As far as I am concerned this violates the rule.

    Look - if someone told me that the US was a fascist state, I would agree with them. I wouldn't take it personally. Neither should any Chinese user.

    Yes, although the US and the USSR both traded with the Nazis as long as they could, the USSR actively helped occupy Poland. Handshakes don’t matter; killing resistance fighters does, in spite of extenuating circumstances.

    Exactly. I'm with you there.

    We have better things to do than fight about 80-year-old actions of a state that’s been dead for 30 years.

    I agree.