I just realized I’ve been misgendering this person by accident.
Yeah even if they have a beef with the local communists for being ineffective that’s still a far cry from claiming the local communists will put them in a gulag. I don’t believe they really believe that. If they do, that’s unhinged. I mean it is true that most European parties with Communist or Marxist in the name are actually more like tepid social democrats and often have very elderly members with perhaps backwards social views. But that’s not some intractable aspect of Marxist ideology but rather the result of 20th century anti-communism efforts in Europe. Also austerity, the actual CIA, and European reactionaries stoking up anti-immigrant bigotry among the working class. There are specific historical reasons why we’ve gotten to this point.
It’s purely magical thinking to believe there will be a repeat of the conflict between anarchists and Marxists similar to 1920s post-revoultionary Russia due to…some unspecific differences in political rhetoric or what? It makes no sense. The countries I’d say are poised to have conflict of a socialist character don’t have an internal anarchist/Marxist conflict from what I’m aware of. Some examples of places I mean are like: Venezuela, where there are some anarchist communes that collaborate with the broader socialist movement. Burkina Faso, where I’m not aware of any anarchist movement or suppression at all. There’s also Niger, Haiti, and Senegal that have recently had unorganized gang-like violence that I personally think resembles class warfare. Again, no specific anarchist/Marxist conflict from where I’m aware.
for the record it’s not even dealing with communists in their locality that made them opposed to communists, this is all based on principled ideological opposition.
I honestly don’t think they have ever spoken with a communist IRL, and have never engaged with them in good faith, they have only ever heard redditors like “CrunchyItchyAdam88” telling them how evil tankies are and they’ve just internalised that, and lack the self-awareness to realise that if they act as hostile as possible towards a group of people, of course that group is going to be hostile back.
I just realized I’ve been misgendering this person by accident.
Yeah even if they have a beef with the local communists for being ineffective that’s still a far cry from claiming the local communists will put them in a gulag. I don’t believe they really believe that. If they do, that’s unhinged. I mean it is true that most European parties with Communist or Marxist in the name are actually more like tepid social democrats and often have very elderly members with perhaps backwards social views. But that’s not some intractable aspect of Marxist ideology but rather the result of 20th century anti-communism efforts in Europe. Also austerity, the actual CIA, and European reactionaries stoking up anti-immigrant bigotry among the working class. There are specific historical reasons why we’ve gotten to this point.
It’s purely magical thinking to believe there will be a repeat of the conflict between anarchists and Marxists similar to 1920s post-revoultionary Russia due to…some unspecific differences in political rhetoric or what? It makes no sense. The countries I’d say are poised to have conflict of a socialist character don’t have an internal anarchist/Marxist conflict from what I’m aware of. Some examples of places I mean are like: Venezuela, where there are some anarchist communes that collaborate with the broader socialist movement. Burkina Faso, where I’m not aware of any anarchist movement or suppression at all. There’s also Niger, Haiti, and Senegal that have recently had unorganized gang-like violence that I personally think resembles class warfare. Again, no specific anarchist/Marxist conflict from where I’m aware.
for the record it’s not even dealing with communists in their locality that made them opposed to communists, this is all based on principled ideological opposition.
I honestly don’t think they have ever spoken with a communist IRL, and have never engaged with them in good faith, they have only ever heard redditors like “CrunchyItchyAdam88” telling them how evil tankies are and they’ve just internalised that, and lack the self-awareness to realise that if they act as hostile as possible towards a group of people, of course that group is going to be hostile back.