this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
142 points (92.3% liked)

Leftist Infighting

1488 readers
1 users here now

This is sort of a "work out your frustrations by letting it all out" community where different leftist tendencies can vent their frustrations with one another and more assertively and directly challenge one another. Heated arguments are OK but pointless hostility is not (see instance rule 3).

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
DashRendar@lemmygrad.ml
GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml
142
Self-styled “anarchists” decrying revolutionary violence as “authoritarian” and “oppressive” are so on my nerves. (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by calcifiedNeurotic@lemmygrad.ml to c/leftistinfighting@lemmygrad.ml
136 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Do they think the Catalan Anarchists had no bourgeois blood on their hands? Do they think the Makhnovites never executed counterrevolutionaries? Fucking idiots. I preferred it when anarchists actually threw pipe bombs.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

*palatable, for clarity

But I feel like Gramsci's writing on the relative failure of anarchists in Italy has some sort of relevance here.

https://redsails.org/discorso-agli-anarchici/

The most basic and unreflective impulse of social rebellion has a palpable connection to what anarchism is, even if many anarchist activists and theorists are much more sophisticated in their ideology than that might imply to you. Anarchism in a broad sense is also very compatible with the empty, abstract inferences that people raised in liberalism are used to approaching political ideology with. In juvenile anarchists, you can for example see this in the similarity between their "I oppose all states", even those that are historically progressive, and Ghandi saying "I oppose all violence" even in response to Jews fighting against Nazis!