Everytime I see an Anti-Tankie community and or a Left Anti-communist community they (almost) always side with US-NATO / First World Chauvinism and condemn the BRICS+ / Third World...
Everytime I see an Anti-Tankie community and or a Left Anti-communist community they (almost) always side with US-NATO / First World Chauvinism and condemn the BRICS+ / Third World...
That's pretty much like the norm for Anti-Tankies and Left Anti-Communists, they will almost always side with US-NATO and condemn the BRICS+ almost all the time when it comes about world politics and geopolitical issues...
Idk, it's basically that meme format about democrats and republicans.
Hey, uh, can I be freed from coercive and abusive power structures whether they be social, market, or government?
Right-wing authoritarians: lol, lmao even. Now get against the wall.
Left-wing authoritarians: lol, lmao even. You'd understand if you'd read more Mao, Marx, and Lenin. Now get against the wall.
Lawlessness is also coercive and abusive. Lack of food, shelter and medicine are also coercive and abusive. Leaving people to fend for themselves without the structures they need to collectively organize, build and defend their society is coercive and abusive.
And let's not pretend that anarchists themselves historically have not resorted to coercive and abusive methods in order to prematurely and without having done the proper material and class analysis try and bring about their society "without coercive and abusive power structures".
And that's the jist of "anti-authoritarianism", it shuns class analysis and never bothers to ask "whose authority?". It tries to ignore material reality and looks only at the form and never at the content. And in the end it becomes more tyrannical than the authority it purports to fight.
Thanks for this response. Yes, you're correct, letting criminals prey on people is not liberation from coercion. Neither is paleo-anarchism or what have you, and neither is the kind of 'proto anarchocommunism' Graeber describes in debt. The problem with the latter of these is that small communities tend to have very, very strong social laws and mores that can have varying severe consequences if they're not followed, and it functionally boils down to the same as being governed by an HOA.
I believe that government must play a role in dismantling coercive power structures, including the ones you mentioned, but in order to do that judiciously, the government must be accountable to the people it governs, not creating creepy secretive self-surveillance programs like you see in the US, China, and other major players. Anarchists may use violence, but targeted assassination and thrown sticks of dynamite cannot remotely compare to the kind of completely deranged outcomes you get when an authoritarian government mobilizes for violence. You might argue that your preferred violence is for a good cause, but you've got a bit of a trap on your hands, because every bad guy out there convinced themselves that theirs was the right choice to make at the time. Nettanyahu thinks he's the good guy here, the CIA believes that they're right and justified when they set up reactionary movements. Some Americans even rationalize the genocide of first nations by arguing that it resulted in the United States, which is a good thing in their opinion (lol, lmao even), and therefore it's retroactively acceptable. In other words, the problem is that all organized violence is self-assured and self-justified. I personally reject the notion that a just and equitable future can only be built on a pile of corpses.
Left-wing authoritarians: lol, lmao even. You’d understand if you’d read more Mao, Marx, and Lenin. Now get against the wall.
You got that right at least- anarkiddies, l*bertarian pedos, and other false leftists get the wall. You don't get a pass for being useful idiots for imperialism (if even that), for being "enlightened centrists" and pretending your terrible takes don't always translate to being racist and worse. Go to the wall, do not pass go, do not collect 200$...
Enlightened centrism
But what about their factories/apartment buildings/office buildings? You can't just take those away and give.it to the people who work/live there right?
Right?