homage to catalonia

blow this s*** up

Still fascinated by this ideology. Might pick up some books.

Part of a pretty good intro text thread, this is the one I haven't read.

People are a******s

Every single person in that picture despised anarchism including Britney

I... Literally don't care.

Are... You going to stalk me in any of my threads now?

If you actually read any of those people you would know what a meme anarchism is save for anarcho-communism

You have bad social takes AND ignorant political ones.

Are u implying cuz more ppl know a work that the other one is a meme

The people primarily interested in anarchism these days are Westerners who are afraid of Marxism-Leninism because they still believe in imperialist 20th century propaganda

This is so ignorant lmao.

I really don't know where to begin...

Imagine seeing the state as some evil entity instead of the means of one class imposing its will upon the other whereby the economic system decides which class it is that wins this class war

No Zapatistas and Rojava are not anarchists no matter how hard you claim them

One of the most ignorant posts on Anarchism I've seen in a while.

Castro dictatorship? Lmao

Imagine knowing anything about Cuba and putting Castro and Batista in the same sentence

You really are an imperialist LARPing as a radical, just like most Western anarchists

But why does that even matter

Like if that's how you start off criticisms rather than something constructive you don't know what you're talking about anyways.

And these conversations always ignore Indigenous/Black Anarchism and it's a little racist.

Oh no my post was meant to imply that that line of thinking is the opposite of meaningful

Do you support regime change in Cuba? You think Cuba would be better off if the state collapsed and everybody set up little communes? What the f*** do you think the USA would do in that scenario? Your ideology reeks of privilege, simply because you Western anarchists hail from countries that don't have to fear another Bay of Pigs, unlike the Cuban people.

When did I compare Castro to Batista?

I posted a book I was reading and the description. You're ignorant okay, a liar too lol just say you don't like Anarchism which is fine and go if you're not going to post anything that's constructive criticism.

Yeah I know where you were coming from I was just expanding on it is all.

You need to educate yourself more before posting again tbh.

You're basically posting propaganda and trying to frame it as enlightenment.

My brand of anarchism is very specific and you just kinda popped in here spreading nonsense.

Frank Fernandez is literally one of the members of the Cuban Liberation Movement (a Social Anarchist movement in the 60s) and you're saying he's a Westerner with privilege?

Like? Stop trolling in my thread.

Half this thread s you just saying to people "No ur wrong lol", f*** outta here

You can post as much Chomsky as you want, any revolution will need a state to survive the onslaught of counter-revolutionaries. The owning class's strangehold on land and resources has to be broken first, then the country has to protected against outside forces. No decentralized structure will be able to manage this save for smaller areas during war, and this has never occurred either. All the "solutions" you posted basically amount to state structures, just with the caveat of not using the evil s-word you anarchists despise so much.

Furthermore, abolishing the state does not abolish capitalism with it, which you are surely aware of.

"Each town proclaimed itself as a sovereign canton and set up a revolutionary committee (junta);' e]ach town acted on its own, declaring that the important thing was not cooperation with other towns but separation from them, thus precluding any possibility of a combined attack against bourgeois forces . It was the fragmentation and isolation of the revolutionary forces which enabled the government troops to smash one revolt after the other." - Engels on the 1872 uprising in Spain

Anybody who does not have to think about invasion - i.e. US-Americans - is privileged enough to fantasize about revolutions with no states with strong centralized structures to protect theif lands. Everybody else has to worry about that s***. The USA has Navy parked in front of VNZL as we speak. You think anarchist socities can organize f***ing naval mines and s***? Utopian. Even simple issues like how to conduct diplomacy require convoluted explanations by anarkiddies.

Maybe anarchism will work in a Mad Max hellscape, but right now, any socialist society needs a state