They’re too busy writing newspapers that no one will read.
That shouldn’t really be an issue though since all the ml’s are busy creating new parties (some guy in the last one thinks we should implement urban farms after the revolution, but my group thinks it’s important to use the implementation of urban farms as a step of taking away power from the landholding class before the inevitable revolution)
And the anarchists are of course busy… Meeting in councils talking about how they should structure a council without a vote? Building parallel power structures (smoke weed with my friends)? Playing in a kindergarten? I dunno what the leftist stereotype of anarchists are.
Luckily this seems to mostly be an online and/or USAmerican thing, every single IRL anarchist I know here in europe will shit on NATO/the US just as vigorously as they will on Putin or whatever.
I may catch a sectarianism ding here, but I do want to say, I used to be an anarchist, and this isn’t really just an “online” problem. I knew a lot of people who were otherwise great, smart, well read, did really good local activism, but then suddenly would start talking like a neocon anytime AES states or the global south was brought up. I knew a guy who did awesome community gardening and anti-eviction work, but was pro-Iraq war, a trans comrade who organized a lgbt youth center who supported “humanitarian invention” in Iran.
Whether or not these people were “real” or “fake” anarchists, I met a lot of them, to the point I think they likely out number anarchists with good positions in imperialism and US adventurism, and it was a pretty big contributing factor to me moving towards becoming and ML.
Real or fake, I do think the anarchist movement should confront why these people who align with them on domestic issues but turn into Clinton style liberal hawks with regards to foreign policy as so attracted to the label.
They’re too busy writing newspapers that no one will read.
That shouldn’t really be an issue though since all the ml’s are busy creating new parties (some guy in the last one thinks we should implement urban farms after the revolution, but my group thinks it’s important to use the implementation of urban farms as a step of taking away power from the landholding class before the inevitable revolution)
And the anarchists are of course busy… Meeting in councils talking about how they should structure a council without a vote? Building parallel power structures (smoke weed with my friends)? Playing in a kindergarten? I dunno what the leftist stereotype of anarchists are.
Feeding vegan food to the unhoused and then doing drugs.
Nowadays it’s mostly about them suddenly transforming into John Bolton the second foreign policy is brought up
Luckily this seems to mostly be an online and/or USAmerican thing, every single IRL anarchist I know here in europe will shit on NATO/the US just as vigorously as they will on Putin or whatever.
I may catch a sectarianism ding here, but I do want to say, I used to be an anarchist, and this isn’t really just an “online” problem. I knew a lot of people who were otherwise great, smart, well read, did really good local activism, but then suddenly would start talking like a neocon anytime AES states or the global south was brought up. I knew a guy who did awesome community gardening and anti-eviction work, but was pro-Iraq war, a trans comrade who organized a lgbt youth center who supported “humanitarian invention” in Iran.
Whether or not these people were “real” or “fake” anarchists, I met a lot of them, to the point I think they likely out number anarchists with good positions in imperialism and US adventurism, and it was a pretty big contributing factor to me moving towards becoming and ML.
Real or fake, I do think the anarchist movement should confront why these people who align with them on domestic issues but turn into Clinton style liberal hawks with regards to foreign policy as so attracted to the label.