You’ll see anarchists praising Rosa Luxemburg, who if they had actually read her writings – they would see that she was very clearly one of the “authoritarian” socialists that they rail against so much.

You see them praise the Black Panthers, who were supported financially by the DPRK and aligned themselves with the Juche ideology of Kim Il Sung.

They even praise Thomas Sankara, who purged anarchists and arrested syndicalists.

If these people had succeeded, i have no doubt in my mind that anarchists would call them “tankies,” they would call their experiments “capitalism with a red flag.” And I also have no doubt in my mind that if the October Revolution, Chinese Revolution had been crushed, they would hail Lenin and Mao as proletarian heroes.

    • Sleepless OneEnglish
      20•1 year ago

      The sectarianism is annoying (inshallah for Hexbear federation to bully the sectarians), but the narrative about MLs regularly teaming up with anarchists only to stab them in the back turns out to be bullshit when investigated.

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        13•1 year ago

        Btw an anarchist from blahaj coming here and complaining about sectarianism is mighty rich when a 80% of entire lemmy modlog bans are people banned from there for being “tankie” - specifically interesting since their comments for which they are banned are not specified, that is, they haven’t been banned for anything concrete.

        Also preempive fishing for a ban, lol, how old they even are?

          • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            10•1 year ago

            Can you just spare yourself an utter embarrasment and block us or better yet, create an account on instance which have defederated from us if that’s so important to you?

            that will not spread misinformation about my political beliefs from ones that will.

            That’s incredibly hypocritical of you to say after what you wrote in this thread.

        • @CPCsStrongestWumao@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
          19•1 year ago

          “NOOOO, LENIN JUST LET THESE SAILORS BREAK AWAY IN THE MOST STRATEGICALLY VALUBLE NAVAL LAND WHILE THERE’S CURRENTLY 13 FOREIGN NATIONS INVADING YOU. THEYRE MORE IDEOLOGICALLY PURE!!!”

        • SovereignStateEnglish
          21•1 year ago

          You almost certainly support regimes who would have me executed for being queer

          The final battlecry of the faux-“leftist” who refuses to actually engage with revolutionaries who actually do things.

          If you engaged with us in good faith whatsoever you would realize that a disproportionate percentage of us are LGBT+. We’re also scientific socialists and believe in something called nuance.

          I am certain that you believe RFA nonsense regarding LGBT rights in AES nations. You should have seen the resolute joy permeating this site when Cuba passed the new family code. Vietnam will hold a similar referendum in 2024 and I have a ton of hope the Vietnamese people will make the correct choice. Being a worker’s democracy, I believe they will.

          How does it feel knowing the AES world is progressing at 10x speed the capitalist world ever has? How does it feel to see successful socialism in action while you can’t even name a successful anarchist territory, yet claim the Zapatistas do not have the right to differentiate themselves from western “anarchism”?

          I respectfully await Blahaj’s self-inflicted demise, and for you to study.

            • SovereignStateEnglish
              17•1 year ago

              Yes. Retreat and have le epic last word. We will continue to fight for LGBT+ liberation in reality while you waste time owning the tankies online. Enjoy.

        • non-diegetic screamsEnglish
          14•1 year ago

          My cause is the welfare of the working class.

          Diabetics dying without insulin after the dissolution of industrial society is apparently good for the working class.

          I’m always curious about this when I talk to argumentive anarchists. When was the last time you read a book? Like, any book?

    • @CPCsStrongestWumao@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      12•1 year ago

      i dont want left unity. also, “misinformation?” you’re telling me that no anarchists praise the black panthers? that no anarchist praises rosa luxemburg and sankara?