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Anarchists don't seem to put much thought into how their ideas will be translated into reality. The most complex organization they can envision is basically a street gang that paves roads instead of dealing drugs. As based as it sounds it's clearly inefficient yet anarchists seem more interested in vibes and less interested in results.
This applies to just about any left wing organizing effort, at least in Eastern Europe.
All of them will have been doing some real praxis. Either it's theory, organizing protests, running food kitchens, other sort of mutual-aid etc.
Each of them wants to define what Marxism really is, assuming they even get that far to read marx and maybe whole 5 people here. Each year they throw more books at me and I have entertained them and respectably read their books.
Have they read my recommendations? No. They'd rather go debate with a liberal. Our governments have been stealing money from pension funds, medical funds, they've been stealing and plundering while we do nothing about it.
And I have never seen a leftist group here try to do anything to secure those funds instead. They deal with the consequences of consequences, but never take it a step further. Just like how they will blame USSR for collaborating with Nazi's but ignore the fact that Western allies pushed them into that position.
Thus I have come to my conclusion, after years of both practical experience (real world interactions) and theory, they have conditioned us into what's known and Splitting in psychology, we have Extremes, but we don't have that much Radicals.
The difference between a Radical and Extremist mindset is that they are both willing to make huge amounts of sacrifices, but one of them is grounded in reality while the other is metaphysical. A radical can shake hands with their enemy and then come out of there uncompromised. An extremist will kill all hostages to save a few.
as long as no one is telling them what to do, that is the most morally important aspect i've come to find
Is that true, or is that just what you assume about anarchists based on internet memes? Have you actually read anarchist theory?
It's an observation I've made from interacting with anarchists.
I love my anarchist comrades but they don't have theory. Their idealism is why I moved away "Left-wing" Communism and toward Marxism-Leninism.
I think the real problem is that half the people here, including said anarchists, have only seen the memes. Let's throw books at each other for the next seventy years dammit!
Yep, 20 billions people shifting the industry and the agriculture during the spanish civil war was definitely just a big street gang. You seems to be misinformed
Which lead to insane declines in heavy and light industry output. Which lead to the republican forces being without heavy weapons and most of the anarchist areas falling without a fight. If I were a more cynical man, I'd say anarchists were outright sabotaging the republican war effort against the fascists.
remind me who won the Spanish Civil War