• Windows97 [any, any]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah they're pretty sectarian. I don't think its helped by the very confrontational scene on reddit from both sides of the left (which I feel like is stirred from the outside a bit) but if anything happens to them we have to make sure they're not going to be sectarian here. I know MLs are kind of a majority here but I really think it's important to have the diversity in tendencies on a site like this. Anarchists are cool af though.

      • Windows97 [any, any]
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        4 years ago

        yeah I think the actual liberal communities LARPing as anarchists don't help but they will also shit on actual anarchists too. And lumping them all together instead of pointing out that the lib communities aren't really representative of anarchist ideals a lot of the time they just blanket shit on them all

    • CommCat [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      can you blame them though? Every time the imperialist mass media hypes up some anti-PRC topic, the r/anarchist sub gets right on board. I remember obvious yellow peril posts on r/anarchism getting hundreds of upvotes, ffs I even remember a r/the_donald poster getting upvotes for posting an anti-PRC meme.

          • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            I mean i frequent r/anarchism and what they described happens like once in two months, it's rare that any anti-China stuff gets more than 10 points there.

            Apart from that unlike r/communism, they don't ban MLs on sight and their mods don't fuck with communist spaces like what happened with GenZAnarchist.

            I agree that what goes on Reddit is mostly unproductive clout chasing but acting like it's only "anarchists" who do so is pretty dishonest, especially putting GenZedong on a shield in the process.

    • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's mostly just dissing anarchists who possess an equal and opposite disrespect for ML achievements/leaders/ideas, rather than substantive arguments against anarchist ideology itself. Not that they don't also dislike anarchism as an ideology, but still.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      except they don’t like anarchists

      Everyone's got their hangups.

      Just slide a copy of The Bread Book into their copy of The Little Red Book and they'll come around.