JacquelineWe should resist fascism by maybe punching Nazis instead of assassinating them, and maybe by building a worker's party instead of doing either anarchist buddyism or Dem party shilling.
The problem with anarchist organizing is that it is often so localist and narrow sighted that it fails to make a coordinated challenge to capitalism. It helps in the areas it focuses on, but without a broader outlook and strategy that will inevitably dissipate into nothingness.
What is needed is not merely local aid networks and the like. What is needed is a political organization that is rooted in the working class and acts as a coherent entity inside an entire country, network of countries, or even the entire world.*
* I will acknowledge that the CNT FAI and other such organizations overcome this. This is more a criticism of individualist anarchism and the like
The problem with some anarchist's opposition to centralization is that it is so rigid and unyielding that it prevents the creation of large scale coordination altogether.
🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp@burnoutqueen This is just hierarchical realism, the bolsheviks did the same thing "without us you wont ACHIEVE anything" well if the choices are red fascism or classic fascism I'd rather just do what we can with actual anarchist organising. Revolution isnt a single moment that either succeeds or fails it is a coming together of new social relations that render the old system obsolete, by the time we can say "the revolution has happened" (if indeed it ever happens) it will have been a forgone conclusion for a long time, if we attempt to fight the state on their terms, with their party politics we will lose, the only option is to change the rules. "there is no need to hope or despair only to look for new weapons"
just to elaborate a bit, doing party politics at all is to agree with an axiom of democratic socialism the idea that we can vote away the state, to *whatever* extent such a party gains the power necessary to do so it will just morph into the seat of power and become the new state, there will *always* be some new excuse as to why they need to hold onto the power longer to prevent counterrevoultion
I do believe in collective organising I'm not an individualist anarchist but I dont believe in using the state in any way shape or form to achieve our goals
