Debates on anti-militarism continue to shake the anarchist movement in the western part of the world. Often in these debates we can see some organisations from Ukraine or Russia show support for the ‘no war but class war’ position. Three and a half years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the anarchist movement is extremely divided. Previous strategies of ‘listening to local voices’ have mostly failed for those who were not interested in the first place. With more scandals certain to come in the future, it’s important to understand how we came to this point.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      1 day ago

      Lemmy was founded by anti-self defense creeps, because they got kicked out of the usual platforms. The sentiment changed, when Reddit did its API bs and a lot of Redditors came to lemmy, but the old group is still around. They have a pretty narrow world view of West evil everybody else good and that means any sort of defense of the West especially by force has to be opposed.

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      21 hours ago

      Why do you think there was a strong anti-military popular movement in the second half ofthe twentieth century?