Had a heated argument with a tankie who glorified stalin and lenin. So fucking tired. The worst thing heās a discord mod of a good streamer, and i left the server because i canāt be there anymore. Context: iām russian whose grand-grandparents were repressed and forcibly relocated. Left Russia several years ago because i didnāt want to support the aggressive war in Ukraine. And his american (no offense to amreicans tho) ass tried to explain me that stalin is an actual hero who singlehandedly saved Europe from fascism, and all repressed were rich ābourgeois land ownersā (actually, no. but even if yes, thatās a terrorism). Then he and other user started posting stupid tankie memes. Ofc they ignored my questions how LGBT+, religious groups and small nations were treated and deleted the message. Iām sick of that shit. Needed to vent somewhere.
Anarchism isnāt seen as positive by everyone but very difficult to corrupt by auth*ritarians
yup. and itās easier to talk people through anarchism isnāt as bad as theyāve been led to believe than to reclaim communism from authoritarians. the problem you run into talking about anarchism is socdems and enlightened centrists calling you a simple minded brute
Same reaction from tankies btw
at least i know to study history AND theory, and know that those theories are just privileged academics studying what marginalized people have been doing to resist all along, and that if you deify a theorist, you are no longer practicing a social cause, you have created a religionā¦
Graeber once said that itās possible to study Marxism on a university level and do it all in an armchair level while anarchist academics (himself included) will engage in some level of action.
That said, there totally are selfaware armchair anarchists. āAnarchism explained to my fatherā is written by one (great book btw)