Slop.

Also the general strikers will snap into a focused understanding of prefigurative revolution without substantial political education or a coherent line beyond anti-capitalism and "hierarchy is always bad and wielding authority makes you immediately and irrevocably evil"

No party organizing or preparatory groundwork necessary!

International Longshoremens Association: we're on strike but we'll keep shipping military stuff for the empire because we're the "I LOVE AMERICA" Union!

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While I understand this sentiment, there's several key issues for why Anarchism in my (rural) neck of the woods is the practical organization.

1. There aren't any communist or other organized non-Anarchist leftists for hundreds of miles. Sadly socialist/communist/ML orgs are typically found in larger cities, but not in the rural and smaller towns. It's the classic Marxist Town/Country divide at work, including suspicions and outright hostility towards Big Cities and their organizations. Anarchists take this seriously and build what we can with what we have, including strict operation security, because...
2. We're surrounded by several local and national armed right wing militias and their sympathizers, which make openly organizing dangerous. We are outnumbered by orders of magnitude. We all keep a low profile otherwise we could be shot from fanatics, to say nothing about the cops. This is enabled by...
3. Reactionary liberals that don't take #2 seriously. Even the small local unions are deeply liberal and reject open leftists of all stripes.
4. While we are decentralized and work locally, we also affiliate with other Anarchist groups. Unlike #1, I know two Anarchist orgs locally and several within a short drive. It's incredibly easy to build up a small Anarchist group from what you have than organizing along more ML lines, sadly, because of #2 and #3.
5. Because of all the above, we have limited options and bodies. Most of us are poor and barely tread water economically. We make do with what we have.

I get the frustration over knee-jerk anti-authortarian Anarchists, which I constantly remind my people that we are not Anti-archists. I'm currently the resident Anarcho-Marxist simply because I've read the most ML theory, and I push communal organization through the guise of Disaster Preparation. That is the one universal experience that I can trojan horse leftist ideas and praxis without triggering their programmed anti-communist antibodies. It's not much but it's honest work. At the same time, and I hate to say it, I must point out to our ML comrades that the Left in the US is gutted. Even the ML groups I talk to struggle in their own cities due to infiltrators, cops, and liberals. They are usually forced to act locally as well. This isn't a critique, simply pointing out the reality of our collective situation. It sucks. At the same time, most MLs in the cities have a much larger population to draw from, and that can offer protection and strategies all their own. To me this fits into my Anarchist worldview of diversity-of-tactics, and MLs should play to their strengths!

I practice Anarchism because, for better or worse, the tools are right at my feet to pick up where I'm at. I can organize (and radicalize) a neighborhood here and a restaurant there. It's slow, but there simply nothing else at hand.

Also I wish churches in my area would act more like my group, but despite practically tripping over churches in my area I rarely see Christians in the field.

All in all, the circumstances of the Rural make traditional organizing out here as difficult now as it was for Lenin.

They didn’t kill all but still a lot, and you have to consider that all of this happened at the end of a long, bloody war. Furthermore, a lot of those landlords didn’t give up but formed the Homecoming Legion to conduct guerilla warfare even after the war had ended.

I just cannot see capitalists giving up their supremacy without either facing overwhelming force or bloodshed, especially because it most likely won’t be them doing the fighting, but, like always, people from the lower classes. They can just sit back and watch and if they lose... well they just move abroad and continue the fight in exile like the White movement did.

So it’s not about being too bloodthirsty, it’s just being consequential about the realities of class-warfare. And I say this as an An-Com.

I admire anarchists but yeah, they lack self-preservation and like I said in my response to Nakoichi, they are completely ignorant of the realities of class-warfare.