"Oh no they're feeding people we don't like on land they don't pay our protection racket for, and they self-organized to do it without using coercive hierarchies! Quick, get 'em!"
"Oh no they're feeding people we don't like on land they don't pay our protection racket for, and they self-organized to do it without using coercive hierarchies! Quick, get 'em!"
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Frequently liberals who've tasted leftism will declare themselves anarchists (since anarchism is more palatable to libs than ML) and then lib up the place with bad takes, bad ideas, and argumentative attitudes with actual leftists
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Also because many of them don't actually know what Anarchism is. I don't think Anarchism is any more palatable to them, I just think it has a different set of misconceptions around Anarchism and anti-communist propaganda is much more heavily promoted. I guess there are anti-revolutionary anarchists, but I have a hard time considering them "real" Anarchists, and the revolutionaries are pretty clear that Anarchism won't be established without exactly the kind of conflict Libs love to scream about.
A lot of libs aren't on board with critical Anarchist positions like ending private property or getting along with your neighbors or ditching the USA's bullshit faux-Democracy.
On the plus side, these "anarchists" never manage to do much to damage anarchist orgs because their idea of praxis is making angry tweets about niche internet celebrities.
It's like judging MLs because of some always online Lysenkoist.
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because people's first exposure to anarchists is usually on twitter these days
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That's why people are so up in arms against them. "Be kind and cooperate with your neighbors and your standard of living will improve drastically" is about the most dangerous thing a wage worker under Capitalism could possibly believe so during the 19th and early 20th century it was subjected to an intense propaganda campaign by the capitalists right up until the 30s or 40s, after which the Cold War took over.
Twitter anarchists mostly. RL Anarchists are cool and good. We still have substantial disagreements, of course, but it's one that progresses both our ideologies.
Twitter Anarchists
Twitter Maoists
Ruining the reputations of otherwise good ideologies.
I have honest to god run in to "Anarchists" on twitter who think fighting a revolution against Capitalism to establish Anarchism would be bad because it's authoritarian or something. I don't even have a joke it was one of the weirdest exchanges I've had on Twitter and I've been on there since a year or two after it started.
I think those people are just feds and wreckers.
Worst case scenario they're people who just want to enjoy the aesthetic of an ideology but balk at taking even small steps towards it.
I think a lot of it is that they've decided that Anarchism begins and ends with some kind of "I'm going to go live in the woods in a shack with my dog" American individualism by way of frontier brainworms. I don't think a lot of them really understand or care about Mutual Aid, they just wanted a name to assign to their desire to not have any community responsibilities and live "off the grid" in what is essentially a 21st century settler-colonial fantasy, the idea that you can escape all the hardships of modern capitalism without actually confronting it.
BUt again, I've only encountered them on twitter, they're extremely weird and hard to make sense of, and there aren't very many of them. I've never seen one in the wild, all my free range anarchist comrades were very "let's feed people, help the homeless, and yell at the cops" people.
People always say this but in my experience real life leftists are even more ludicrous than online ones
There's a lot of dumb shit even in RL, but generally I find the established anarchist orgs to be less silly than the Communist ones. The trick is getting to 18 months without tearing yourself apart or becoming a sex pest cult.
They don't use tanks on fascists enough for my liking tbh
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