PCM and its consequences :a-guy:
People just pick labels at random and say that that’s what they are. Not like me, a council-communo-syndical Leninist (with American characteristics).
A lot of kids feel this way before they gain experience and read up a bit more.
The “we both want freedom and that’s what’s important” brainworm is strong and can take time to excise.
Because, in general, they are not dying of poor and so their attraction to socialism comes from conditions of alienation because their comfortable social strata is being proletarianised and it makes them feel icky.
What do you mean?
Anyways, in a lot of cases, freedom to do what? Be queer? Yeah a lot of places even in the empire core still sucks big time in that regard. Drugs? Not like a big priority but ok. What else? What policies do they want?
Because it’s easier to swim perpendicular to the propaganda you’ve absorbed your whole life than to swim directly against it.
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.
Anarcho-communists who go on and on about hating M-Ls more than the right are fucking sus as fuck.
Literally never had an issue with M-Ls even though I don’t agree with you all on everything. If you don’t behave like a twat constantly there’s absolutely no reason for the sheer amount of vitriol they have. I’m dating an M-L and shockingly I’ve never once thought of allying with fascists against her.
There are far too many an-coms who suck and they all have twitter accounts.
There are far too many an-coms who suck and they all have twitter accounts.
I think it’s because radlibs love to appropriate radical aesthetics while keeping their politics trash, but “communist” is seen as too tainted a label. So they flock to anarchist as the label (not the politics).
