cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8181688

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If the anarchists in the soviet union were allowed power, general plan Ost would have come to fruition. Anarchists have historically not been able to lead mass industrialization in a coordinated way, and have not been able to lead successful military campaigns across territories as large as the USSR. If the soviet leadership didn’t protect the revolution from anarchists, part of my family would have died in a death camp instead of being liberated from one by red army soldiers.

But the tankies stabbed the pure hearted anarchists in the back! Okay, maybe the anarchists shouldn’t have been idealists who cared more about coops than actually prosecuting a successful socialist transition. Literally read Lenin’s interaction with the anarchist prince.

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Anarchists have historically not been able to lead mass industrialization in a coordinated way

Because its not anarchists job to do that but worker’s job, and they are very good at self-organizing.

have not been able to lead successful military campaigns across territories as large as the USSR

You say this as if they had multiple chances to do so lol.

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Because its not anarchists job to do that but worker’s job, and they are very good at self-organizing.

The anarchist workers didn’t do a good job. The popular front workers did a better job, the Soviet workers did a better job.

You say this as if they had multiple chances to do so lol.

They had a chance in Catalonia, a much smaller field, and couldnt coordinate there.

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Ah, at least we come to the crux of the disagreement. “Anarchists, babies! MLs, strong!”. It always comes down to that, but it’s refreshing to see you just straight up say it sometimes, so that people can see it.

Anyway, please take your historic fiction in the appropriate places. I can pull stories out of my ass as well, but that convinces no-one.

PS: I like how you sneaked in that call to emotion at the end. Very manipulative. Love it!

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Have you read anything about the failures of coordination among the anarchist militias in Catalonia? Or their failures of economic coordination beyond the local level?

Have you even absorbed the critiques enough that you are in a place to argue against them?

Because this is serious stuff that you should be educated about before you make judgements about it.

I’m very sympathetic to anarcho syndicalism, but it showed its weaknesses in Spain and sectarian anarchists blame it on the USSR instead of learning from it.

PS: I like how you sneaked in that call to emotion at the end. Very manipulative. Love it!

It is not socially well adapted to declare “appeal to emotion” when someone is communicating why something is personally important to them. What I’m doing is expressing myself in a normal human way, and you consider that manipulative?

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Have you read anything about the failures of coordination among the anarchist militias in Catalonia? Or their failures of economic coordination beyond the local level?

Ah, nice try, but I already told you I’m not going to debate you on the Spanish Civil War. Why don’t you go to the places where there’s anarchists up for that sort of thing?

What I’m doing is expressing myself in a normal human way, and you consider that manipulative?

You implied that not crushing anarchists would have directly led to a successful genocide. Ye it’s pretty manipulative.

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PS: I like how you sneaked in that call to emotion at the end. Very manipulative. Love it!

Go back to Reddit.

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Ah, at least we come to the crux of the disagreement. “Anarchists, babies! MLs, strong!”. It always comes down to that, but it’s refreshing to see you just straight up say it sometimes, so that people can see it.

Anyone paying attention to what they actually said and not your petulant response will notice how far your characterization is off from the actual source. You’re putting on a shameful display.

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@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com hey why not this specific criticism?

Remember when you acted like I was only insulting you and not making valid criticisms? Why don’t you reply to the valid criticisms instead of the insults you deserved when it became clear you refused to engage in good faith?

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