Are Lemmy anarchists okay? How does this person have 24 upvotes? In what universe are anarchists NOT doing class analysis, (therefore) don’t want to abolish capitalism, and don’t want to fight archism?

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I suspect this is just because libs absolutely DESPISE comrade @Cowbee@hexbear.net and will upvote anything smart-sounding that supposedly addresses whatever is being discussed?

Also, gotta love the whole “I have this opinion and many anarchists will disagree and that’s what anarchism is about”. Like, buddy, you haven’t read one book or talked to one anarchist IRL, let alone organized in your entire life.

  • 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I never grew out of it. I am an anarchist and a communist. Opposing all illegitimate hierarchies means opposing capitalism first and foremost. Here anarchists and communists are pretty much indistinguishable from each other and they’re doing the work of organizing mutual aid and raising awareness of the class war and marxists ideas. What you’re describing exists in some point but to me it sounds is an online phenomenon.

    He’s using words wrong, but what he’s describing is simply organizing workers - in word, you know, unionize.

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I probably should’ve been clearer that I was talking about pointless online squabbles and not IRL. You’re right that out there, where it actually matters, all this online infighting melts away, and anyone trying to act like a Twitter leftist is quickly chased away. I’ve worked plenty with anarchists as a communist, because we both want to abolish capitalism, it’s only online that you see this smug sort of “NATO anarchist” type actively declaring that all other forms of leftism aren’t “real leftists” because that would mean leftism involves going outside and actually helping people instead of just getting into fights on twitter.

      I should’ve clarified that this is an online phenomenon, mainly working as a way to keep people away from actually organising IRL and waste all their time falling deeper into a smug self-satisfied twitter coma.