Saw a post about an influx of anarchists to lemmygrad and this popped into my head.

The funny parts is that a lot of anarchists hate MLs with a passion. Meanwhile, most MLs are sympathetic to what anarchists want, but just think that they're misguided in terms of their methods.

I'm not even sure we have the same intended long-term goal as them tbh. At least, a lot I've come across really seem to think 'stateless' means no government, no large scale infrastructure, the old 'someone will make insulin as a hobby' meme.
- I think there is definitely a difference between anarchists who want the same generally better world that we do and anarchists who want Mad Max style civilizational collapse
- I find it's more meaningful to talks about specific flavors of anarchism, such as anarcho-syndicalism. I can definitely see the appeal of what they want such as structuring businesses as worker owned coops. I just don't think they have an actual workable plan of how to get there. A lot of anarchists I've talked to though, do have infantile notion of society where they basically just expect everyone to just get along and be nice to each other.
- Wait, if stateless doesn't mean 'no government', what exactly does it mean?
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I don't think it's just that they are misguided. It's that they raise guns against the revolutionary state.
- That's why we need to educate people on the necessity of the revolutionary state. :)

*maybe

Saying this as someone who constantly sees the local anarchist groups and CPUSA/ML groups working together at rallies and picketlines.

If your anarchism starts and stops at your screen you're just a liberal. Same for Marxist Leninism.

local anarchist groups and CPUSA/ML groups working together at rallies and picketlines.
True, but try putting that into a meme :P
If your anarchism starts and stops at your screen you're just a liberal. Same for Marxist Leninism.
Yeah maybe liberal and activist woud've been more accurate.

i mean if we only disagree on whether a hypothetical communists society in the future could actually abolish authority altogether, then whatever i welcome them they are still wrong but i dont mind. But generally anarchist on the anglosphere internet means radlib who buys into all the western propaganda about socialist countries but still want to be leftists and these types can fuck off, to somewhere where they can read a book.

There are 5 questions on the Lemmygrad signup to make you explain why you want to be there. I thought it would be funny to answer "I'm too much of an anarchist to submit to a hierarchy and answer this."

I never heard back on my application. 🤷‍♂️

Mf mods have a sense of humor give this person $10 and a lemmygrad
- lol, yeah! Thanks, comrade.

Anarchist here, Authoritarians can fuck off.

I get where you are coming from, I used to be pretty anti authoritarian.
But if you give me the benefit of the doubt, I can suggest an article by Friedrich Engels on the topic, which ultimatively changed my mind: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:On_authority

MLs founded and currently run the most populous country in the world
Kronstadt was organised by Whites, idk what you expected the Soviet government to do there.