Normally they're pretty good, but man, that is a bad fucking take. Yeah, I'm sure China is going to fall apart annnnny day now because it's exactly the same as the US.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Honestly, if you actually talk out the differences, there's a few points of difference with the more practical types of anarchists (AnSyns for example) but not much.

    It basically boils down to

    • Disagreements on what a revolutionary class monopoly of force actually is, and if it constitutes a "State"
    • How formal a hierarchy needs to be, how directly recallable it must be.
    • How strictly disciplined the Vanguard must be, and what does the vanguard consist of. (a disagreement hard-MLs have with Leftcoms, Luxemburgists, and CCs)
    • Interaction with current political systems (Electorialism in the Leninist sense of parliamentary shitposting. This is as far as I can tell the ONLY difference between an AnSyn and a Council Communist)

    These are strong disagreements, but honestly I think they're really productive ones to have in the left.

    I'm a very ML sympathetic "Stop trying to define my tendency-ist." (I guess if pressed I'm an "Old-Luxemburgist" as in I agree with Rosa's critiques of Leninism but not the 1920s Leftcoms.)