I know this is just a joke but I actually really, really hate this idea of "we'll just duke it out after the revolution". Miss me with that bullshit. That's not the attitude you have towards fellow comrades. It's viewing people who share the same end goals, values, and care for humanity as you down to a temporary transactional allyship similar to how we might think of centrist libs in a revolutionary situation. It assumes the other side has nothing to contribute.
You know what I want after the revolution? To work with my comrades from different tendencies to build something that gets us to a stateless, classless, moneyless society. Our anarchist comrades as well as other good tendencies have a lot to offer in this regard. Should we actually get to the day after a successful revolution, we're gonna have one chance to get it right. The forces of reaction will stop at nothing to fuck us all over - even if we have a simultaneous global revolution! I'm not gonna pretend that as a Marxist, I have all the answers. But we're really gonna be in terra incognita at that point, so we're gonna need to have some ideological flexibility to adapt to what will be a historically unique situation. Anarchists will help push us to that end goal we all want, and that's not just a good thing, that's a necessary thing.
And of course there will be contradictions that will have to be resolved! But this isn't automatically a negative thing. We can use that friction to figure out the best way forward. THAT, to me, is dialectical.
Anyway, as always, much love and respect to my anarchist comrades.
I know this is just a joke but I actually really, really hate this idea of "we'll just duke it out after the revolution". Miss me with that bullshit. That's not the attitude you have towards fellow comrades. It's viewing people who share the same end goals, values, and care for humanity as you down to a temporary transactional allyship similar to how we might think of centrist libs in a revolutionary situation. It assumes the other side has nothing to contribute.
You know what I want after the revolution? To work with my comrades from different tendencies to build something that gets us to a stateless, classless, moneyless society. Our anarchist comrades as well as other good tendencies have a lot to offer in this regard. Should we actually get to the day after a successful revolution, we're gonna have one chance to get it right. The forces of reaction will stop at nothing to fuck us all over - even if we have a simultaneous global revolution! I'm not gonna pretend that as a Marxist, I have all the answers. But we're really gonna be in terra incognita at that point, so we're gonna need to have some ideological flexibility to adapt to what will be a historically unique situation. Anarchists will help push us to that end goal we all want, and that's not just a good thing, that's a necessary thing.
And of course there will be contradictions that will have to be resolved! But this isn't automatically a negative thing. We can use that friction to figure out the best way forward. THAT, to me, is dialectical.
Anyway, as always, much love and respect to my anarchist comrades.
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