Maybe as an experiment, let's try to understand each other's positions ITT and not have the same boring old arguments (because they're boring).

Edit - nice discussion everyone, thanks <3. I'm seeing a lot of responses from ML and not many from anarchists, but maybe I'm the only anarchist on this site lol

  • American_Communist22 [she/her,comrade/them]
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    I have to say, Anarchists have a more firm understanding of Gender, Sex, and general personal relations. What I mean by that is how Anarchists, even back then, were more accepting of our LGBTQ comrades when we weren't. ML countries are getting better, but I feel thats no excuse to the pain that those oppressed had to suffer before that. Marxism Leninism is freedom for the workers, and it should include them from here on out. They have a lot of knowledge on the subject.

    Anarchists have some respectable critiques of MLism, and vice versa. Its nice to have a political frenemy with whom you can take seriously on some matters. A reason I find MLism good as well is that it takes pieces of anarchism "like the council soviets" and spread them onto a bigger scale.

    But I gotta say, around 70% of Anarchists need to learn what politics are in the first place (Thankfully none of those on this site). I keep seeing movements fall to liberalism and Co-option (not that ML ones don't fall to cringe, but this is about anarchists). But they have a shotgun strat of organizing, there are so many that pop up, that some of them will be good.