Silly Anarchist former BO was only just Lenin Next BO will be our Stalin you haven't experienced a true purge yet
Chase Hernandez
For a long time this board had an anarchist and leftcom majority, yet M-Ls didn't whine about it and cause a split. Remember that next time you see Zig Forums talking about muh evil ☭TANKIE☭s
It's almost like anarchists are incapable of self criticism
Christopher Kelly
How do we dew it?
Jose Thompson
Before the ML era I was banned here a couple of times for ML positions. Eventually people got exposed to the ML viewpoint and became ML, it isn't that we recruited Reddit, this is a completely bullshit argument once you realise we are like the supervillans for r/socialism and r/communism because we are "ableist". Mentioning Zig Forums there gets you banned. It's simply that some of old Leftcom arguments and anarchist arguments didn't hold up to scrutiny over time.
Ryan Torres
Most of the anarchists who got fucked over, including me at one point, were fucking cancer, who needed to stop playing bullshit, and actually work out what their own theory implies.
Gavin Diaz
Based. I do really like anarchists who aren't harping on about muh gorillions and hurr durr Assad gasses children. Absolute comrades.
The problem are always the "post-left anarchists", the "anarcho-individualists", the "anarcho-nihilists" etc. but I think they're largely just teens.
Noah Morgan
Funnily enough, it was actually Stirner's own stuff that really helped me break out of my own radlib phase. I suspect that a lot of people here took the "spookbuster" from Stirner but missed out on the actual important part of his writing: You need to define your own life.
It took me a bit of thinking to actually come to realize what I'd wanted, and I actually came to realize how ridiculously short-sighted and void of goal liberalism is. I gave myself a rather simple goal of something I'd like to see, something to work towards. I'd like to see humanity survive to the stars. Maybe it'll happen after I'm gone, but it's a goal.
Starting to actually envision what that would look like was a major part of what wiped out the liberalism in my own mind. What the costs of that would be, what the present day would look like to someone a thousand years from now. It really struck me how utterly petty it was to criticize "dictators" in other countries while supporting the US' "humanitarian" invasions when it was coming at the cost of perpetuating homelessness and poverty on a systemic basis. Was it worth it to condemn untold billions to poverty while the comfortable "middle class" and bourgies took over the stars?
Utterly ridiculous.
To some extent, horrifying on an even greater level than what was happening now. Sure, today we listen to the horrors of times past, we tell ourselves how wrong it was that we did horrible things in the name of progress, but nobody at all would suggest that we give up the progress in the name of doing what's "right". I really realized the cost of perpetuating a system indefinitely just to try to be "nice" now. It genuinely put things in perspective for me, it helped me realize that we are still in the very infancy of humanity's history, that what we do today is going to set the stage for a thousand years from now.
I do think most of the radlibs (they're not even properly anarkiddies yet) here and the ones who went to leftpol (mostly) have revolutionary potential in them, and it needs to be questioned, cultured, and raised. Provoked, even, made to challenge their remaining liberalism. But they're not revolutionary yet.
Thomas Bennett
meanwhile, in reality:
Daily reminder that the OP/ Zig Forums-types are completely retarded and beyond hope.
Sebastian James
"Lastly, the Anarchists tell us reproachfully that "dialectics . . . provides no possibility of getting, or jumping, out of oneself, or of jumping over oneself" (see Nobati, No. 8. Sh. G.).
Now that is the downright truth, Messieurs Anarchists! Here you are absolutely right, my dear sirs: the dialectical method does not, indeed, provide such a possibility. But why not? Because "jumping out of oneself, or jumping over oneself" is an exercise for wild goats, while the dialectical method was created for human beings."
Stalin
Kek.
Jackson Torres
im not a leftpol type im a cockshottist and i just want the board numbers to increase
Carson Ward
So, who is the new chief of this board? Can someone start deleting all the poltard race'n such moronic shitreads?
Evan Hernandez
the levels of historical revisionism in this thread lmao comrade T-34s never let facts get in the way of ideological "truth"
Connor Sullivan
agree
Jordan Sanders
Tanks literally saved Eurasian communism from Hitler. What did Catalonia do? Pic related
Get raped by Franco because the CNT were a bunch of retards who attacked literally everyone including their allies.
Jonathan Reyes
He did, he wanted to turn this board into recruiting grounds for /marx/.
Aaron Bailey
My favorite thing anarchists do is when they blame the failure of Kekalonia on Stalin not supporting them despite their insistence that they can capture and maintain power without the help of support of any kind of State lmao