Anarchism is a broad descriptor and a good portion of recorded anarchist thought has been quite explicitly individualist. Our task in responding to these kinds of Marxist criticisms is not to deny this fact, but to suss out what is meant by "bourgeois individualism," understand if and how it differs from individualist anarchism, and describe how such a philosophy is compatible with -- or even necessary for -- communism.
Of course meme politics allows no such discussion to take place, but if we want "left unity," we have to progress past this discursive mode of binary positions and intellectual siege mentality.
It's a lot easier for rad libs to call themselves anarchists than MLs because the propaganda against anarchists isn't as intense and the punk movement kinda made it cool.
I vote to keep the term anarkiddie, but not use it as a derogatory term for anarchists, just a derogatory term for radlibs larping as anarchists because they like the Dead Kennedy's.
Exactly. My problem isn't with anarchism, it's with liberalism which has captured anarchists more than other tendencies. We all just need to unite as communists then work out our differences there. Communist is a good filter for scaring away liberals and I think all anarchists and MLs can agree that the end goal is some form of communism.
How does someone get the idea that a philosophy that has mutual aid as one of its core principles is "individualistic"?
Anarchism is a broad descriptor and a good portion of recorded anarchist thought has been quite explicitly individualist. Our task in responding to these kinds of Marxist criticisms is not to deny this fact, but to suss out what is meant by "bourgeois individualism," understand if and how it differs from individualist anarchism, and describe how such a philosophy is compatible with -- or even necessary for -- communism.
Of course meme politics allows no such discussion to take place, but if we want "left unity," we have to progress past this discursive mode of binary positions and intellectual siege mentality.
It's a lot easier for rad libs to call themselves anarchists than MLs because the propaganda against anarchists isn't as intense and the punk movement kinda made it cool.
I vote to keep the term anarkiddie, but not use it as a derogatory term for anarchists, just a derogatory term for radlibs larping as anarchists because they like the Dead Kennedy's.
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Exactly. My problem isn't with anarchism, it's with liberalism which has captured anarchists more than other tendencies. We all just need to unite as communists then work out our differences there. Communist is a good filter for scaring away liberals and I think all anarchists and MLs can agree that the end goal is some form of communism.
I vote we drop it and bully the radlibs into reading Malatesta
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