Like I think a central state is needed for the first phase of the revolution, but the more brutal aspects is something I just don't want to do, even if I understand why they did them?
Like I think a central state is needed for the first phase of the revolution, but the more brutal aspects is something I just don't want to do, even if I understand why they did them?
I kind of don't understand why contemporary anarchists have supplanted federalist principles with horizontal absolutism.
I think it's partly the very individualist aesthetic that has permeated anarchisms since, like the 90s onward. There's an increasingly egoist stance of fetishizing ones immediate lived bubble of experience, with the trade-off of not thinking and organizing on bigger scales.
I kind of wonder if it's an internet thing. People on the internet love not reading and equally love building their beliefs around snappy platitudes. Anarchism means more than just "abolish hierarchies" but the internet is full of baby Anarchists who seem to stop there.