• Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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    1 year ago

    You're probably looking for raddle.me; this is a left unity site, so you gotta be friendly with the commies. Raddle is strictly anarchist, though not strictly left-anarchist as far as I can tell.

    • Weedian [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      lol

      https://raddle.me/f/Anarchism/157984/i-got-into-an-argument-with-tankies-and-i-m-stumped

      • solaranus
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        1 year ago

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      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        lol look at the fucking Makhnovists. You'll beat Stalin one day! Just keep at writing your shitty posts from exile and alienating the more useful leftists around you. Just one more article and you might see victory!

        • JuneFall [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          My view of Makhnov got much more complicated once I looked into the facts.

          For example forcing people with weapons to fight in an army was something he organized. Is that anarchist? If the army is needed in a fight against white or Nazi terror it sure is legitimate and that was one of the reasons MLs did it in the early years of the Soviet Union, too.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            There's a story I always talk about that I think is the perfect encapsulation of his being a loser:

            In June 1926, during a meal with Alexander Berkman and May Picqueray in a Russian restaurant, Makhno met with the Ukrainian Jewish anarchist Sholem Schwarzbard, who went pale upon seeing the [fascist] Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon Petliura walk into the room. Schwarzbard immediately informed the Batko of his intentions to assassinate Petliura, in revenge for the pogroms carried out in the Ukrainian People's Republic, during which some of his family members had been killed. Makhno attempted to dissuade him but the deed was carried out anyway, with Schwarzbard's subsequent trial bringing to light a trove of documentary evidence on the pogroms in Ukraine, exonerating the assassin.

          • geikei [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            he was kinda cool in some ways but when things got tough his project too quickly resorted to some level of chaotic vanguardism and violence to pull through and manage stuff. Scale that up to the complexity and issues the USSR project had to deal with and you can quikly see he was far from a "better alternative than the bolsheviks that they crushed"

      • ziq [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Libertarians are a form of anarchist.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Is this a joke? They are not.

          Unless you mean libertarian socialists.

          I don't see how capitalist libertarians can be anarchists in any way, shape or form.

          • DictatrshipOfTheseus [comrade/them, any]
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            1 year ago

            "Libertarian" really did mean anarchist originally, it was straight up a synonym. Being a self-described anarchist was outlawed in France and so they adopted the term Libertarian such that they could still operate and have influence with the public. But like so many other cool leftist things, the right stole the term and fooled everyone into thinking it was theirs. Now we have to differentiate between libertarian socialists and american "libertarians" all because fascists are unoriginal and continuously undermine the left by cooption.

            I have no idea if that's what ziq means, but if they allow the modern american form of "libertarians" on their site at all, then fuck them all the more, their site is even less leftist than I realized.

            • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              No it's a straight up libertarian subforum from what I can tell

              https://raddle.me/f/Libertarian/115911/libertarian-forum-purpose

              • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Lol so that place is cool but pro-Cuba posts are evil

                Absolutely useless forum, just wasted potential

                • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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                  1 year ago

                  Lol Reddit “anarchists” are just spicy liberals that like appropriating the radical aesthetic example #583739

                  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                    1 year ago

                    Many are well-intentioned libs who are smart enough to see the problems with capitalism, but too lazy to seriously engage with anti-capitalist theory (of any school) and too credulous to question the State Department line on other countries. There's potential, but it's a textbook example of a little education being a dangerous thing.

                    I love that the anarchists we have here actually read what prior anti-capitalist theorists have to say and have put together that maybe the country most open to anti-capitalist criticism can't be trusted to give you accurate information about its designated enemies.

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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          1 year ago

          If you consider yourself an antifascist anarchist, at some point you have to contend with right-libertarianism's explicit synthesis of "small government" politics with nationalist Christian supremacy. Otherwise "fascism" is just a word you use for people you have beef with online.