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?
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.
I think I'm at the point where I have a decent idea of just how deep Marxism goes, and can actually keep up with what the actual greatest Marxists talk about (as in, understand them), but I have a long way to go to get to that level. There's a sort of false confidence you can get if you read, say, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific and Imperialism: The Current Highest Stage of Capitalism for the first time, that melds with the pre-existing liberalism that we are all molded by in English-dominated spaces. I'm beyond that point of false confidence, and far behind the actual level of serious competence.
Don't get me wrong, I greatly appreciate the compliment, but there are people that have a far deeper understanding than I do. I've just been pretty consistent with my studies and have been able to sharpen them by discussing it with others.
That is probably the hardest part for most westerners is shedding that neoliberal shell we've all been boxed into at birth. Thats the part where I see most people who realize something is wrong with our way of life fail to come to a complete understanding of what is going on.
Absolutely. Until people recognize that the system is genuinely failing them, they will endlessly license themselves to believing it works. Even people radicalized still have those intense layers of cultural hegemony subtly reinforcing how we think and how we view society. We all have these, still, even after we are aware of it, and have to do our best to kill the liberalism in ourselves.