Makes you wonder why the most committed anarchists would go to the Ukraine to fight if they weren't really anarchists in the first place.

If the anarchists were really as disorganised as this article paints them to be, any adventurist would have had much better luck finding their way to the front through virtually any other route than as an anarchist.

Notice the unfalsifiable orthodoxy that kicks in in the editorial note, immediately dismissing any anarchist who joined the Azov Battalion or the OUN as being a false anarchist since joining with fascists disqualifies your from being an anarchist. That's very convenient and all but the lack of self-crit shown in this article is astounding.

  • LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
    ·
    1 year ago

    The war was already at their doorstep in 2014 and it took them 8 years to pull themselves together

    This is a bit unfair. They're anarchists, they would have been 10 years old are most when the war started.