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I was listening to this series on audio book in the shower when this occurred to me. 'Gadara' is a fantasy species of wolfpeople's word for enemies that are respected and even trusted. A worthy foe sort of thing.

The idea is that the predatory wolf people believe friends can betray you, but an enemy can be trusted to act in their own self interest if they show themselves to be an honorable sort. Each party to the relationship maintains their status as enemies and expects the other to kill them if given the opportunity, but also can work together against threats to both. Being a gadara to someone also confers a bit of protection with your gadara's allies. A gadara can vouch for each other, and have laid claim to the honor of killing the other. So vouching for a gadara is saying "I want to be the one to kill this one, please respect that and leave them to me."

So to bring this around, an understanding between individual tankies and anarchists where both parties understand their ideals are incompatible, but the other can be trusted to work against fash would be a pretty useful arrangement. If we don't look past each other to the greater threat of fascism we won't be around long enough to get to have our fight in the end.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Communism is supposed to dissolve the state at the final step, so all of this infighting is just a psyop. Communists and anarchists have the same goals.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Juat one more 5-year plan bro, I swear!

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

All the leaders of the West were just revealed to be pedophiles as 100% undeniable fact. I'll take those 5 year plans over culture war plans.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

I think you're probably right, I'd be quite happy if the 'fight' at the end between tankies and anarchists was simply diplomatic. Having met a few people who I would qualify as red-fash though, I am not fully optimistic on that count. My point is I guess that a pragmatic approach to building working relationships on a low-trust basis will get us to that point more readily than completely dismissing each other.