I have no doubt that any anarchists here are pretty based, I don't think anyone needs to prove anything to me, but I'm curious as to why you think anarchism is the best way forward towards liberating the working class. Personally, I lean more towards libertarian tendencies I just don't think anything other than MLism is a viable path forward and I think all the theory and history I've read tracks with that.analysis. I suppose you could call me socially anarchist but fiscally ML, lol.

  • Mouhamed_McYggdrasil [they/them,any]
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    Because I don't give a fuck about any "revolution" that responds to workers striking for:

    • Immediate new elections to the Soviets; the present Soviets no longer express the wishes of the workers and peasants. The new elections should be held by secret ballot, and should be preceded by free electoral propaganda for all workers and peasants before the elections. Freedom of speech and of the press for workers and peasants, for the Anarchists, and for the Left Socialist parties.

    • The right of assembly, and freedom for trade union and peasant associations.

    • The organisation, at the latest on 10 March 1921, of a Conference of non-Party workers, soldiers and sailors of Petrograd, Kronstadt and the Petrograd District.

    • The liberation of all political prisoners of the Socialist parties, and of all imprisoned workers and peasants, soldiers and sailors belonging to working class and peasant organisations.

    • The election of a commission to look into the dossiers of all those detained in prisons and concentration camps.

    • The abolition of all political departments in the armed forces; no political party should have privileges for the propagation of its ideas, or receive State subsidies to this end. In place of the political section, various cultural groups should be set up, deriving resources from the State.

    • The immediate abolition of the militia detachments set up between towns and countryside.

    • The equalisation of rations for all workers, except those engaged in dangerous or unhealthy jobs.

    • The abolition of Party combat detachments in all military groups; the abolition of Party guards in factories and enterprises. If guards are required, they should be nominated, taking into account the views of the workers.

    • The granting to the peasants of freedom of action on their own soil, and of the right to own cattle, provided they look after them themselves and do not employ hired labour.

    • We request that all military units and officer trainee groups associate themselves with this resolution.

    • We demand that the Press give proper publicity to this resolution.

    • We demand the institution of mobile workers' control groups.

    • We demand that handicraft production be authorised, provided it does not utilise wage labour.

    with the wholesale slaughter of workers and then defiling their names by spreading lies that they were working with counter-revolutionary forces (We're not sure which ones, it keeps changing, but all we know for sure is that there was SOME counter-revolutionary forces behind this). At that point you're no different than the fucking Tsar no matter how much you talk about putting power in the hands of the workers if you just consolidate it into the elite party officials while claiming to be socialist, and brutally repressing any actual attempt at workers liberation.

    If you don't care about or sympathize with those demands, you have no place claiming you support the emancipation of the working class. Chances are all you want is a revenge fantasy where you and your buddies get to be the new Bourgeoisie and relish in the power to crush anyone who disagrees with you or gets in your way.

    People are gonna see straight through you if when the time comes you proclaim support for rebelling against the capitalist scum who keep you toiling in factories 12+ hours a day with no say in what happens in their workplace in return for meager wages and no autonomy with brutal repression for those who dissent politically, but then when you take over, you do those exact same things while proclaiming, "Sorry, but its necessary for the good of the revolution". Then again, fuck your revolution, and you'll never use us as your pawns again.