Comrade Spood

I feel like simply supporting the people in their defense accomplishes the same thing without also supporting nation states in any way.

Most people don’t. The issue is a lot of people ask the question, but have an answer already in their mind before they even asked. They don’t actually want an answer, they want to trap you and make you feel bad.

Then my question is why support the state at all?

I think you have the right values, but I think your conclusion is a bit off. I think supporting a state is antithetical to being an anarchist. You can support the people, and not a state. For example I support the Ukrainian people in their defense against the Russian state’s imperialism, however I do not support the Ukrainian state. I think its fine to think some states are better than others, but supporting a state is something else entirely. We need to break away from the idea of the nation state, and stop equating people with the nation state they are a part of.

Edit: To add to this, I do not think an anarcho-communist society is idealism, and I don’t think we should settle for a “pragmatic” alternative. I think too many anarchists have fallen into a defeatist mentality, and while support anarchism, they dont believe it to be tangible. I think that is what makes anarchism intangible currently, too many of us don’t believe we can win. We lose by giving up

Liberals pretending to be leftists strike the comments again. Good post 👍