Anarchists are often true believers. We treat them with utter disdain but they genuinely believe the USSR or whatever the target of their wrath is to have been bigoted/genocidal/whatever.
We’re so used to dealing with liberals that deploy this stuff cynically that it’s kind of off putting, but these are not opportunists or even people particularly deserving of our malice, just people deeply misled.
Yes, I know, “propaganda is just an excuse”, but these people have been legitimately led to believe that most communists want to repress and hurt them, and the terminally online but ever present queerphobic “comrades” in many online spaces don’t help.
This isn’t really an inherent aspect of the ideology, but instead, I think it’s a side effect of the already existing contradictions between ML and anarchist thought
Anarchists are often true believers. We treat them with utter disdain but they genuinely believe the USSR or whatever the target of their wrath is to have been bigoted/genocidal/whatever.
We’re so used to dealing with liberals that deploy this stuff cynically that it’s kind of off putting, but these are not opportunists or even people particularly deserving of our malice, just people deeply misled.
Yes, I know, “propaganda is just an excuse”, but these people have been legitimately led to believe that most communists want to repress and hurt them, and the terminally online but ever present queerphobic “comrades” in many online spaces don’t help.
This isn’t really an inherent aspect of the ideology, but instead, I think it’s a side effect of the already existing contradictions between ML and anarchist thought