Cross-posted from "TRUE communism!" by @Muaddib@sopuli.xyz in !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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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.
Describing china as leftist is kinda funny. They're defs more welfare oriented than neoliberal countries but after the reforms shit is a bit of a joke.
Public ownership is the principle aspect of their economy, the large firms and key industries are thoroughly owned by the state, and the proletariat is in control politically. It certainly has a long way to go as it develops through socialism, but the ultraleftism of the Gang of Four and the late Mao period were ultimately not based on materialism, but an egotistical desire to try to acheive communism well before it could actually be.
The reforms were a calculated and sober return to more traditional Marxist understanding. The Gang of Four were dogmatically high on their own supply, and thought, legitimately, that it would be better to have worse material conditions in a more planned economy than introduce controlled market reforms and achieve higher levels of material conditions and metrics for the working class.
I understand that it isn't anarchist, not by any stretch, but it appears to have paid off quite well so far. Growth is more consistent, stable, and rapid than before, and that's referring to the material conditions of the working class, not just profits.
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.
It would be silly of me to disavow prefiguration when my primary interaction with lemmy has been making it melt down with how vegan I am :p
But I guess that's where these navel-gazey comics and internet slapfights rub me the wrong way. To get where we need to be we don't need a billion anarchists, we need a billion people willing to ignore lords and masters. Agitation focused on waking people up to the flaws in liberal capitalism rather than agitation that fragments the already prostrate left seems more useful to me.
That's the thing, I don't think there's anything to divide. Anarchists have not been united with MLs since the first international. We just have non-compatible praxis and our actions will lead to severely different results. I think it's important to remind people of that now and then. I'm OK with working with MLs who follow anarchist praxis, but I also know we must remain vigilant for entryism and takeovers of our orgs.
I have a different perspective but we've both said our pieces.
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