true, there are lots of good anarchist comrades in my country, but they seem to have completely lost the plot over in burgerland, changed the title.
This is very hexbear doctrinaire of me to say, but there’s a meaningful distinction to be made between anarchist activists and online “anarchists” who just parrot stupid liberal talking points while being into communes.
Yes, you’re right. The last time I heard open Nazi apologia in person it was from an anarchist (the time before that it was a libertarian, before that a literal neo-nazi, and that’s it). There’s a reason I said it was “doctrinaire hexbear” because, like a lot of hexbear doctrine, it’s a myth that is at best useful as a heuristic (or just useful for moderation).
But think of it this way, on the internet it’s most anarchists that are anarcho-bidenists and offline it’s only maybe half in the first world and less than half in most other places.
Stalin was basically correct, I just take the extremely condescending attitude that if we play nice many of the anarchists will learn better, because “anarchism” is a much more accessible ideology in the first world than ML, and not by accident . Being a jerk about it doesn’t do anything useful except alienate the people who think explicit ideological incoherence is a virtue, which isn’t a group even worth fighting most of the time.
