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 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.
- 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
- 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.

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.

I've always seen anarchism to be more liberal than socialist. Like the end goal of liberalism where everyone cares about him/herself and fuck everyone else. Maybe that's just me.

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