This person deserves many dunks, yes. But whenever we dunk on these bad takes from "anarchists", I also want to go out of my way to say that I love all my anarchist comrades here, you all are great :left-unity-3:
It’s also worth pointing out that there are indeed “ML” counterparts to this on Reddit who are sectarian and antagonistic towards anarchists as if they were fight turf wars or something. These attitudes perpetuate each other. We complain about these “anarchists” for good reasons and it’s easy to assume that all self-proclaimed ML’s are having an experience similar to your own if they’re complaining about the same people, but I think a small number of Very Online people make up the bulk of this feuding.
In reality it’s two groups of liberals yelling at each other about fake internet points, but they use our labels, so guess we gotta deal with that baggage
Rememering the time the 16 year old head mod of r/genzanarchy "became an ml overnight" and decided to destroy the entire subreddit. very mature slapfight and filling their respective subreddits with sectarianism ensues. Very revolutionary to turn the attention and anger of two leftist factions away from capitalism and toward one another.
I've got nothing but love and respect for all ML comrades here. At the end of the day in real situations I'll gleefully jump in and help whoever is pulling things left, that benefits us all.
Yep I'd join a vanguard party if one materialized in the US (sorry tankies I really don't think that will happen before the US implodes), in the meantime there's so much work you can do within an anarchist framework to prepare communities in the imperial core for its inevitable collapse.
The biggest priority should be creating a safety net of mutual aid networks to respond to people's material needs during the many crises ahead, this way we can demonstrate our ideology in practice while hopefully educating people on why we do what we do.
I like Graeber's take on anarchism, it's not something you are it's something you do. Food Not Bombs for example is one of the most prominent anarchist groups in the US, but tons of people of all sorts of ideologies participate and work with them. So, is the dedicated FNB volunteer who also attends a Marxist-Leninist reading group an anarchist or an ML? Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers were largely Maoists, but where is the line between mutual aid and Mass Line?
This person deserves many dunks, yes. But whenever we dunk on these bad takes from "anarchists", I also want to go out of my way to say that I love all my anarchist comrades here, you all are great :left-unity-3:
I specified reddit for a reason. :)
It’s also worth pointing out that there are indeed “ML” counterparts to this on Reddit who are sectarian and antagonistic towards anarchists as if they were fight turf wars or something. These attitudes perpetuate each other. We complain about these “anarchists” for good reasons and it’s easy to assume that all self-proclaimed ML’s are having an experience similar to your own if they’re complaining about the same people, but I think a small number of Very Online people make up the bulk of this feuding.
In reality it’s two groups of liberals yelling at each other about fake internet points, but they use our labels, so guess we gotta deal with that baggage
Just call them what they are, liberals
Rememering the time the 16 year old head mod of r/genzanarchy "became an ml overnight" and decided to destroy the entire subreddit. very mature slapfight and filling their respective subreddits with sectarianism ensues. Very revolutionary to turn the attention and anger of two leftist factions away from capitalism and toward one another.
I believe that user was banned from here for that
lol
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:meow-hug:
I've got nothing but love and respect for all ML comrades here. At the end of the day in real situations I'll gleefully jump in and help whoever is pulling things left, that benefits us all.
:duck-dance:
Yep I'd join a vanguard party if one materialized in the US (sorry tankies I really don't think that will happen before the US implodes), in the meantime there's so much work you can do within an anarchist framework to prepare communities in the imperial core for its inevitable collapse.
The biggest priority should be creating a safety net of mutual aid networks to respond to people's material needs during the many crises ahead, this way we can demonstrate our ideology in practice while hopefully educating people on why we do what we do.
I like Graeber's take on anarchism, it's not something you are it's something you do. Food Not Bombs for example is one of the most prominent anarchist groups in the US, but tons of people of all sorts of ideologies participate and work with them. So, is the dedicated FNB volunteer who also attends a Marxist-Leninist reading group an anarchist or an ML? Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers were largely Maoists, but where is the line between mutual aid and Mass Line?
That's OK, honestly I'd take the US imploding at this point. At least it would cut down on imperialism.