Like, I identify with anarchist philosophy not because of some single-minded opposition to authority for its own sake, I do so because anarchism best describes the praxis I am capable of engaging in and because I believe that in the near term building the sort of parallel support structures like mutual aid organizations and advocating for prison and police abolition are important for creating the sort of material conditions necessary to engage in and promote more organized revolutionary action.
Tenants' unions, free kitchens/food pantries etc. are great safety nets to support communities and make people less afraid of mobilizing general strikes and other more targeted direct action and at the same time if a true revolutionary vanguard party somehow manifests within the imperial core (something I am skeptical of ever being possible in my lifetime) you bet your ass I would join that effort in a heartbeat.
I think it's weird since in the US anti authoritarianism and pro socialism are the same thing. Like, if you look at Marx, he talks a lot about humans being everything they can, democracy, and even freedom at times. Lenin was addressing a scenario where if there wasn't a centralized army and coerced production, the revolution would fail, but honestly that's not what Marx was talking about. In the US, where the centralized army is the big bad and labor is already centralized and coercive we have the luxury of fighting directly for socialism.
"“Historian Michael Malet writes that at this time,“criminals entered the army for what they could get out of it, especially plunder in the towns.”
Excerpt From: Sean Patterson. “Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil War, 1917–1921.”
It's very much just denialism of Soviet success & idolizing what never "could've been" rather than accepting reality
We can't beatify Makhno and write hagiographies for a man who when:
"A delegation from Novozlatopol once went to Machno [sic] to discuss his raids against the Jews. Machno’s reply was “What can I do ? They’re just a bunch of ignorant peasants”, referring to his own men.”
:geordi-no: leftist infighting
:geordi-yes: left unity :lenin-shining: :left-unity-3: :kropotkin-shining:
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Like, I identify with anarchist philosophy not because of some single-minded opposition to authority for its own sake, I do so because anarchism best describes the praxis I am capable of engaging in and because I believe that in the near term building the sort of parallel support structures like mutual aid organizations and advocating for prison and police abolition are important for creating the sort of material conditions necessary to engage in and promote more organized revolutionary action.
Tenants' unions, free kitchens/food pantries etc. are great safety nets to support communities and make people less afraid of mobilizing general strikes and other more targeted direct action and at the same time if a true revolutionary vanguard party somehow manifests within the imperial core (something I am skeptical of ever being possible in my lifetime) you bet your ass I would join that effort in a heartbeat.
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I think it's weird since in the US anti authoritarianism and pro socialism are the same thing. Like, if you look at Marx, he talks a lot about humans being everything they can, democracy, and even freedom at times. Lenin was addressing a scenario where if there wasn't a centralized army and coerced production, the revolution would fail, but honestly that's not what Marx was talking about. In the US, where the centralized army is the big bad and labor is already centralized and coercive we have the luxury of fighting directly for socialism.
There's been mistakes. Lenin should have cut a deal with Makhno.
no, Makhno should've been BTFO'd because his bands were doing pogroms & not assisting with the anti-imperialist war in the West
Lionizing Makhno is just comporting oneself with anti-communist Western Sovietology, not with the facts on the ground of the revolution
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"“Historian Michael Malet writes that at this time,“criminals entered the army for what they could get out of it, especially plunder in the towns.”
Excerpt From: Sean Patterson. “Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil War, 1917–1921.”
It's very much just denialism of Soviet success & idolizing what never "could've been" rather than accepting reality
We can't beatify Makhno and write hagiographies for a man who when:
"A delegation from Novozlatopol once went to Machno [sic] to discuss his raids against the Jews. Machno’s reply was “What can I do ? They’re just a bunch of ignorant peasants”, referring to his own men.”
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