- cross-posted to:
- politicalmemes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politicalmemes@lemmy.world
Cross-posted from “TRUE communism!” by @Muaddib@sopuli.xyz in !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
Cross-posted from “TRUE communism!” by @Muaddib@sopuli.xyz in !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
We don’t ban hexbears just because they’re from hexbear. I’ve known you’ve had an account there for years.
Well of course you know
It is a joke about the content of said account.
Lemme get the anarcho-police to check it on the tankiemeter…
It all comes out now, nobody can survive contact with power. Even administrating a lemmy instance corrupts.
Come see the violence folks, come see anarchy in action!
For real though, I respect you a fair bit but I do find fanning the flames of this internet slapfight over tankies a bit silly. Ultimately lemmy is not determining the course the future, it’s the stuff we do outside and I’ve never had a conversation come up about whether Stalin’s apparent antisemitism was a result of intrinsic bias or complex geopolitical realities outside of lemmy. I’ve stood in line with people without knowing anything deeper than that they’re here now about them. I’d apprehensively (lets be honest protest spoopy) do it again.
Basically everyone people call tankies on lemmy want the same good things as “ideology pure” leftists. We’re a tiny minority of a minority, aside from like 3 weird people everyone on hexbear/grad/ml is chill. I don’t see this doing much except scaring left curious libs away from studying any ideas more serious than welfare stateism.
Mate, I just posted a meme in our own comm. They don’t have to come here and start shit. I just want to laugh about this very real effect with other anarchists. My world doesn’t revolve around hexbears, but they can’t help but make their insecurities my problem.
As I always say, what we say want is irrelevant (nevermind that a lot of tankies like Cowbee will tell you that what they really want is something like modern China). How we go about achieving it is the only thing that matters, and in practice our tactics are not compatible. So the only collaboration that happens between MLs and Anarchists is when the former act like the latter, (until they inevitably try to take control of those orgs)
Are you fucking serious? Remind me again what the first comment posted in this thread was? Was it you saying:
Yes, yes it was, you disengenuous fuck. I’m beginning to agree with the people saying you have a humiliation fetish, I don’t know why else you’d decide to make this post.
Me recognising that salty hexbears can’t help themselves from showing their asses, doesn’t mean I want them to do it.
As much as it is stunning to believe, my life doesn’t revolve about what terminally online campists think of me.
Ok, well, enjoy the results of your very obvious bait post I guess.
I find it extremely shitty for someone to actively pick a fight and then whine about how they didn’t actually want a fight, but you do you.
Awww come on, you know you post bait. A lot of the more aggro users are pretty young and very online, you know how the all feed works. You’ve either gotta aggressive ban arguing or it just turns into this.
Like with this comic, which is kinda funny, it’s a superficial view of sometimes really complex and for people perhaps too invested in the complexities it’s like whatever the rage-virus version of catnip is.
I dunno about the working together stuff. The people I’ve found the most useful in union movements tends to be pretty dogmatic about Lenin. I lean syndicalist myself - believing that unless we control work and train people in democracy that way we’ll be destroyed by police - so that might be my own lens on things but a lot of self identifying anarchists aren’t the most practical of people.
Well that’s the thing, I post “bait” from all angles. Just look at my posts in /flippanarchy about liberal electoralism. I get swarmed by libs frothing at the mouth about “vote blue no matter who” (and I’m not even USian). If I consistently avoid all anarchist topics which enrage terminally online weirdoes, I might as well close down this comm, yanno?
Anarchist agitation just happens to looks like “bait” with those it criticizes.
Counterpoint: the IWW
But yes, there’s lifestyle anarchists out there, as much as there’s tankie LARPers who put on ushankas and dress in red. Likewise I’ve seen a ton more hypocrisy in meatspace ML circles than online ones, but I’ve also witnessed anarchist crustpunks who are toxic to the working class. There’s shitty people in all areas, but historically we can clearly see that anarchist praxis does bring the goods.
TBH outside of some examples like mondragon (more Basque than anarchist) and the zapatistas it kinda seems like we’re getting fucking owned. The left in general seems like it’s getting fucking owned. It’s one of the things that keeps me up at night.
Everywhere except China/Cuba/Korea yeah
Capitalist propaganda has been very effective when things were going up in the everything bubble, but these things quickly change as the system instabilities accumulate. Ultimately it doesn’t matter if “the left is getting owned”. Acting prefiguratively does improve our lives in the here and now so we just keep agitating for those methods, that’s the beauty of it.