Anarchists have their resources too, don't you think? Even being a anarchist takes some skill, after all.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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i like this one
it feels like "tolerate me or die"
Where's the reading list?
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I think this joke is only 40% true, but also still very funny.
Anarchists have been robbing large oligopoly supermarkets in my city and redistributing the food to “community fridges” for a good couple years now.
Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!
That's cool and all but that's local tier good-samaritan stuff. While it's good, it will never overthrow the system.
What do you think anarchism is all about...?
It’s absurd to not help someone now because you could also do something highly theoretical and better in the future. Both things should happen.
Condemning the world's largest resistance in its fight against the empire because of some "theoretical future" where Anarchists once again are incapable of organising any armed uprising because they don't have a leadership structure is the only thing that happens.
Some people want a revolution and some people want their community fed. These are not mutually exclusive and I’m happy people are doing anything at all instead of hooking themselves up to the short form content IV every night like the vast majority.
bro wat - I'm yet to see a socialist party group turn up to an anti-fash protest and put themselves in harms way to protect vulnerable groups instead of standing on the side lines selling political newspapers and dipping out as soon as their leaders decide they'd like to go home
There are plenty of Socialist revolutions but they happen outside of the first world. Coincidentally anticolonial movements are often opposed by Anarchist because the victims aren't perfect enough.
on the side lines selling political newspapers
Anarchist 'zines are literally a meme term
yeah that's fair - but I feel they serve different purposes?
like I see anarchism as a form of counterbalance to state power irrespective of where it is - without needing to be dogmatic
as in undeniably Uruguay is materially much better now than its ever been (while still being at the peak of it's colonial project even under socialist governance)
same with Bolivia giving relative power to indigenous peoples while improving living conditions even under a corrupt government
neither is perfect but vastly better than western powers seizing their resources and wage enslaving their populations - same goes for other socialist Global South countries
and yet I see the value of anarchist "purity" criticism in that it should continue to challenge all governments when the time is right - even socialist ones - as at the end of the day we all want a stateless society - and until then I dont see why anarchism and socialism can't strive to achieve that through productive structural tension?
Anarchists are a lot better than Liberals. But when push comes to shove, such as Iran getting invaded, many Anarchists are all too happy to hop on the imperialist fence and hold both-sides stories like it's a moral high-ground
and yet I see the value of anarchist “purity” criticism
That sounds fun and all but who is going to fight imperialism then? Are colonized countries going to free themselves because Anarchists blocked a weapons shipment but then the Anarchist opposes the resistance force fighting against the colonists? Fidel Castro sent fighters to support the imperfect ANC. Now that was some actual solidarity. Though we don't see much of that from "socialist" countries anymore either.
idk what anarchists you're around but all the ones I hang out with are vocally pro Iran even if they dont approve of the Ayatollah on principle - but yh I'd take mls over liberals any day of the week - I feel part of it is that anarchists aren't a solid block so while some may block shipments other might fight against what they see as oppression that on a geopolitical scale can result in helping colonial forces - idk we're all imperfect so I hope we can recognize that and through different means still continue to erode imperialism instead of fighting with each other at the benefit of colonizers
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution. It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems.
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Lenin, Trotsky, and later Mao, pulled off revolutions in countries with 90% illiteracy. The magic word is "vanguard."
Anti interlectualism is for losers
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