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Also having a plan for all the factions to fit in "after the revolution" builds left-unity now, maybe we can finally move past arguing about the Spanish civil war
The people who bring up the Spanish civil war as a reason to "never trust a tankie" are beyond help in my opinion. The idea that all "tankies" are the same is ridiculous, that a revolution in an entirely different time and place with entirely different material conditions will somehow always turn out exactly the same, with them getting stabbed in the back by tankies is just absurd. Also has a lot of influence from "Judeo-Bolshevism" with this idea that the "authoritarian communists" are always going to stab people in the back because it is their "nature" or something.
They just want their morally pure team to be the good guys and the "tankies" the designated bad guys. They aren't anarchists because they actually believe there will be an "after the revolution" they're just libs who wear a t-shirt with a
symbol on it. They aren't interested in learning about history or about improving the future, they're only concerned with feeling good about themselves. And in ten years, those same "tankies" they despise (which often includes actual anarchists doing actual work to help people) will still be working at furthering their causes, while these kind of pseudo-anarchists, or "anarkiddies" will have see anarchism and leftism in general as "just a phase" and will just be bog standard libs, if not full-on fascists.
(The first part of your point is completely correct, we don't need to fight now nor after a revolution, we can always work together, even if we have different end goals, both groups want a better world for everyone, and giving people more options for how they think that looks is a good thing, not a bad thing.)