I'm like 50% pro the non sectarianism rule if only because a lot of ML spaces online just descend into anti-anarchist circle jerking. Thing is I've always had some qualms with it too. Like for one it really only seems to apply to anarchists, MLs and I guess also Maoists. Nobody really seems to hold back against Ultras or Trots. IDK why does anarchism get special protection? Also every movement has it's, uhhhh, unsavory and weird figures, but I really am seeing a disturbing consistency in the anarchist bad takes as of late and I'd be a liar if I said it didn't somewhat speak to some flaw in the ideology. IDK if or how this should affect mod policy, because if it keeps like this we are just going to be dunking on anarchists a lot which is going to piss the ones off here eventually.
I've wrote about this before but basically it's likely due to the fact that anarchism is the first flavor of radical politics most westerners and especially Americans dip their toes into. It's no secret that feds have deliberately fanned the sectarian flames and made attempts to coopt anarchism. After all it's too appealing to the American myth of the self sufficient frontiersmen and homesteaders to extinguish its allure entirely.
This means you have a hugely disproportionate number of self-identified anarchists who are really just baby leftists who haven't been exposed to any form of praxis beyond mutual aid and fucking with cops and have gotten most of their theory filtered through breadtube, which can be good if they land in the realm of say Luna and NonCompete, but principled anti-imperialists are certainly the minority.
That's not to say other tendencies don't have their own weirdos with bad takes like the PatSocs for example, but they aren't as prevalent because there isn't nearly as big an audience as there is for radlib grifters riding the (however small) new wave of leftist politics emerging in the west.
because if it keeps like this we are just going to be dunking on anarchists a lot which is going to piss the ones off here eventually.
I think there's a difference between good faith dunking on people for taking anarchist ideas in absurd directions like the bedtimes thing, but in this case we should just dunk on them for being libs. There's nothing anarchist about raising money for guns that will end up in the hands of fascists we already have a word for that and it's liberalism.
I'm like 50% pro the non sectarianism rule if only because a lot of ML spaces online just descend into anti-anarchist circle jerking. Thing is I've always had some qualms with it too. Like for one it really only seems to apply to anarchists, MLs and I guess also Maoists. Nobody really seems to hold back against Ultras or Trots. IDK why does anarchism get special protection? Also every movement has it's, uhhhh, unsavory and weird figures, but I really am seeing a disturbing consistency in the anarchist bad takes as of late and I'd be a liar if I said it didn't somewhat speak to some flaw in the ideology. IDK if or how this should affect mod policy, because if it keeps like this we are just going to be dunking on anarchists a lot which is going to piss the ones off here eventually.
I've wrote about this before but basically it's likely due to the fact that anarchism is the first flavor of radical politics most westerners and especially Americans dip their toes into. It's no secret that feds have deliberately fanned the sectarian flames and made attempts to coopt anarchism. After all it's too appealing to the American myth of the self sufficient frontiersmen and homesteaders to extinguish its allure entirely.
This means you have a hugely disproportionate number of self-identified anarchists who are really just baby leftists who haven't been exposed to any form of praxis beyond mutual aid and fucking with cops and have gotten most of their theory filtered through breadtube, which can be good if they land in the realm of say Luna and NonCompete, but principled anti-imperialists are certainly the minority.
That's not to say other tendencies don't have their own weirdos with bad takes like the PatSocs for example, but they aren't as prevalent because there isn't nearly as big an audience as there is for radlib grifters riding the (however small) new wave of leftist politics emerging in the west.
I think there's a difference between good faith dunking on people for taking anarchist ideas in absurd directions like the bedtimes thing, but in this case we should just dunk on them for being libs. There's nothing anarchist about raising money for guns that will end up in the hands of fascists we already have a word for that and it's liberalism.