Frank Fernandez is a Cuban Anarchist who lived through Bay of Pigs.

What on EARTH are you on about, you need to stop and go educate yourself then maybe come back lmao

I'm not talking about him I'm talking about Amerikans like you Ted Cruz parents lived through Bay of Pigs too does that make them experts? Plenty of White Russians lived through 1917 does that make then communists?

A state isn't needed to counter invasion. That's just one way of doing things.

I'm also not sure what quoting Engels is supposed to mean.

Capitalism & the state both need to be done away with to then continue on to decolonization and liberation of oppressed peoples. An anarchist society can defend itself as a collective, that's the point.

This is what I'm talking about.

People come in this thread with misinformation & lack of actual anarchist information and hurl insults at Anarchists... When they don't know anything.

You need to learn how to read from multiple perspectives and make your own opinions about things. You're so far behind on this subject as I already mentioned, I do not know where to begin.

You said Anarchists that don't have to deal with an invasion are privileged westerns.

You also said calling the Castro period a "dictatorship" is imperialist LARPing.

Yes, Castro is not a dictator and anybody who claims so instantly discredits themselves as a lapdop of the bourgeoisie

So you know better than an actual Cuban who lives in Cuba?

You came in here with:

Class reductionism
Whitewashing of Anarchism
Severe lack of information
Propaganda

Sigh.

Ayn Rand lived in the USSR does that make her gospel on the USSR?

And that's rich coming from you, the guy who tried to explain who is considered brown and who isn't despite not being brown himself.

So you know what brownness is better than an actual brown person?

And you're calling one of the greatest revolutionaries and anti-imperialists of modern times a dictator. Would not expect anything less from a first worlder.

Someone who actually lived under that time period in Cuba who criticized the authoritarianism is not an imperialist. You sound like a buffoon.

This is the THIRD time I've had to point out how stupid you sound.

And you ignored my last post in that thread regarding this topic again but you misunderstood for the second time. Stop quoting me, stop following me around, stop posting in my threads.

All you can do is post ad hominems and say "We don't need a state we only need structures that function exactly like a state except we don't call them a state because states are super evil but basically it's whatever a state does just without economy of scales or efficient planning"

Anybody who sees what the USA is doing around the world and remotely believes that an anarchist movement is able to stand up against that superpower has no concept of history. You are blind to what the US is doing because you live in the imperialist core. First worlders have the privilege to not worry about these issues as much, but the rest of the world doesn't.

Look what happened to Ghadafi when he tried to implement a gold standard instead of the US dollar in the AU - anyone rattling at the American's throne with even the slightest transgression will be dealt with considerate force, force that can only be stopped with an efficient centralized structure that in turn mobilizes the masses into a stage of siege. And even then the movements can barely survive, if at all. It would be even worse without a state.

If Cuba weren't under siege since the 1950s, a lot of things would be different. But crackers are still mad about losing Cuba so Cubans have to do s*** they otherwise wouldn't have to. This has been the reality of any socialist society so far and will continue to be this way, as long as the USA exists.

Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution
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A book edited by Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt examining social anarchist, anarchist communist, anarcho-syndicalist, and revolutionary syndicalist movements in Africa, Asia, East Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean

Better quality scan than the one that's out in public.

This is post is a perfect embodiment of how idealist anarchists are and how they lack the materialist approach socialists have

None of these states had successful anarchist insurrections that lasted longer than 2 years, and any short-term insurrection that occurred like in Spain or Greece was decades later because of the Great Depression and WWII, i.e. the material situation, and not because some porky elite got offed

If one elite dies another one replaces him. If let's say Boris Johnson died tomorrow, would anything about the UK change? No, because absolutely nothing about the material conditions of the worker would change.

This is the simplistic thinking anarchists have: State = Bad; State Leader = Bad; State Leader Dead = Good. Lmfao

Reminds me of the Anarchist Exclusion Act.

The (first) Red Scare too. Been some crazy ass propaganda

Anarcho capitalism in small communities/ countries > 5 million population might work.

f*** the State apparatus, we nomadic war-machines in here 😤

Anarcho capitalism isn't a thing

They about to come for you 🙄

Lol