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[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My feeling in my heart is anarchist but a few real world things have happened to me that makes me see the golden path to anarchism paradoxically require the tanks

  1. All my "anarchist" (white) friends from growing up in the US either died young from the rot in that society transitioned into libertarians than conservatives as we got into our mid 40s. Oddly the trans issue is what seems to really radicalize them into fascism.
  2. Leaving the US and being afforded the ability to see what that society actually stands for from the outside.
  3. The white "anarchists" in the US so neatly fall into their cruel and inhuman system of global domination and appear to be their puppets. Their criticisms of it are always in favor of maintaining their comfort and status quo. Their hopelessness and fatalism serves its interests. It is obvious from here
  4. Watching the US destroy my family with tanks that were still living in Iraq and Iran
  5. Understanding how the COINTELPRO actually works. They don't just fund Christian fundamentalism. They fund anything to distract people from class consciousness including modern art, liberalism, rap and hip hop, and even seemingly radical orgs like Direct Action Everywhere.
  6. Reading history. I don't know how you can read Lenin and come to the conclusion that he was wrong
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's basically why anarchism only really exists within the imperial core as an ideology. It's really just liberals being edgy and pretending to be on the left without actually wanting to make any systemic change. That said, I do think a lot of ideas from syndicalism are genuinely good and should be applied within a socialist society. However, building such a society in the first place requires Marxism.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's still useful, for drawing people in. I considered myself an anarchist when I joined lemmy a couple years ago. I don't anymore.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

It can be since it's more socially acceptable, and then people start engaging with new ideas which can lead them towards more rigorous analysis.