I won't debate you or anything I'm just really curious what some of the main reasons why someone would want the state to beat capitalism rather than defeat capitalism according to anarchist theory. I appreciate anyone who takes the time to answer my question. Hopefully an interesting discussion can be had. EDIT: I appreciate everyone's response. Not exactly a big fan of most of the sentiment but I appreciate those who took the time to help me understand.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    As a former anarchist -- because it is incredibly easy to see what is and is not effective at bringing about a revolution based on any sort of analysis of history. Marxism achieves revolution, time and time again. Anarchism rarely ever does, and on the rare occasions it has done so they have either relied upon nearby marxism post-revolution to defend them or implemented states that look like bootleg ML states with poorer organisation that last a little while but then get run over by capitalists.

    It is extremely easy to see that anarchism will not survive until all the capitalists are first gone.