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I've noticed something about anarchists that i find pretty funny: they'll praise marxist revolutions and revolutionaries AS LONG AS they dont actually succeed. (lemmygrad.ml)
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You'll see anarchists praising Rosa Luxemburg, who if they had actually read her writings -- they would see that she was very clearly one of the "authoritarian" socialists that they rail against so much.

You see them praise the Black Panthers, who were supported financially by the DPRK and aligned themselves with the Juche ideology of Kim Il Sung.

They even praise Thomas Sankara, who purged anarchists and arrested syndicalists.

If these people had succeeded, i have no doubt in my mind that anarchists would call them "tankies," they would call their experiments "capitalism with a red flag." And I also have no doubt in my mind that if the October Revolution, Chinese Revolution had been crushed, they would hail Lenin and Mao as proletarian heroes.

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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another thing I find hilarious with Anarchists is that many of them are huge EU supporters. Turns out they're totally fine with centralization and large unelected bureaucracies in practice. These people are just LARPing.

[–] mulcahey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't say I've seen this among anarchists... Any examples?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My personal experience talking about the EU with people like @poVoq@lemmy.ml

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be fair he seems to be somewhat unconventional, even most online anarchists are not openly bootlicking imperialist institutions like that.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's a bit more honest about it, but vast majority of anarchists support NATO to the hilt right now. When push comes to shove anarchists are just liberals LARPing.