Eh, guy who thinks anarchism and anarcho-capitalism are compatible has such a loose grip on the concept that it’s barely a bad anarchist take.
But lets be honest, the magnitude of bad anarchist takes can’t all be coming from
:yea: I got banned from almost every anarchist space just for getting annoyed at obvious fed posting. And everyone in the vaguely left subs just thinks I’m a tankie. Like jesus christ motherfuckers touch grass and do some organizing, anarchist praxis is the most accessible form of praxis one can do in the US and in the short term the most necessary.
At least I’ve been working on dragging r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM in a better direction
I feel like I have to tread more lightly in Antiwork but I’m trying to bring folks around to reading some good debrainworming stuff like Black Shirts and Reds where I can.
I think it’s straight up just an ancap pretending to be an anarchist, he keeps insisting that capitalism is good and everything will just work out essentially. Not even doing a good job pretending to be an anarchist, he keeps referring to “altruism”. Anarchist who wants to maintain capitalism and wants the holes filled by charity is just too dumb to be believable.
Fuck off this is even worse sectarian baiting than the phenomenon you’re talking about.
I think there’s really a point to be had here. It’s not that there are a lot of “bad anarchists” but in the US especially and english speaking countries in general it’s the more accessible entry point to the left, so you get a disproportionate number of people who have adopted it out of a desire to find their footing in the left but decades of being submerged in anti-communist propaganda puts all these thought terminating obstacles in the way of for example accepting that dialectical materialism is a useful tool for analysis or that there’s a lot to be learned from Maoism and mass line tactics that overlaps with anarchism.
There’s also that the superficial understanding of anarchism=freedom is too similar to the American ideology. It means that people can become anarchists without ever doing much self-criticism or examining their own biases.
