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    10 months ago

    Republican Spain and the “Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria” AKA Rojava.

    Republican Spain had some communist factions too, but Rojava is explicitly built around a specific strain of anarchism, and is an “administration” instead of a government. I doubt it looks very anarchist in practice, but that’s neither here nor there, and they’re democratic enough the US has endorsed them in the past to Turkey’s great displeasure.

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      10 months ago

      Republican Spain was a military faction in a Spanish Civil War, not a country.

      Rojava is Kurdish separatist group, not a country.

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        10 months ago

        Bullshit. They have flags, bureaucracies and a monopoly on the use of force within their territory. I will not argue semantics with you.

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          ISIS also has a flag, bureaucracy and a monopoly on the use of force. Doesn’t make them a country. If you don’t have arguments, you should not start arguing in the first place.

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            10 months ago

            Actually, I’d say it made them a country, back before they lost all their territory.

            I’m not sure what the exact term we use has to do with the fate of socialist systems anyway, so I won’t reduce myself to arguing about it. If you don’t have anything else, I think we’re done here.