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And the anarchists around here are cool with Stalin? Crazy times...
This comment reminds me of some old "left unity" spaces I used to go to in my teenage anarchist days. That quickly turned into ML spaces. It was surreal to watch happen. Yeah, that's the thing. There's stuff both sides can learn from each other, despite being an ML now I definitely still have a soft spot for the more rational libertarian socialist types because I don't think my teenage self was entirely wrong, and if you want a strong leftist anything, we gotta be cool with each other.
Cooler with Stalin than with liberals and fascists, generally.
I've definitely dealt with some idiot "ancoms" more cool with liberals than "Stalinists"... but even at 13 in the height of my own anarchist phase I knew those guys were idiots.