"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!"
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.