I've read the sentence about anarchists ten times and I have no idea WTF he is on about. Btw the nerd's name is Peter Hudis.

Edit: FFS Tankies and anarchists stop shitting on each other here. Take your struggle session elsewhere. You're both my comrades.

  • panopticon [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Idk much about this but apparently the Chinese revolution included a strong current of anarchism? I feel like the whole ideas of decentralization, horizontal/nonhierarchical organizing, dual systems of power, etc make a lot of sense in the context of peasants taking the lead in the revolution as opposed to the proletariat. And I think there was generally an attitude of cooperation because the reactionary nationalists and liberals and so on had to be defeated.

    Seems like we should learn from that. But again idk much there historically speaking so maybe someone could post some recommendations.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, and Mao studied the anarchists. It shows up in ideas like mass line, some of the pluralistic political bodies the CPC experimented with in the early years, and especially the great proletarian cultural revolution.

      I know it's popular to shit of the GPCR and it was, for sure, a fucking mess, but it tried to put into practice things everyone here would support: the city as a classroom, practical education, worker self management, and more. A lot of those were probably directly related to anarchist ideas present in the progressive milieu that supported the revolution.