Fair.

No worries. But making a movement into a farce of itself and encouraging infighting is right out of the 1970s cointel playbook.

Even better if you can do the above to the point that the original ideology is no longer decently reflected in the current discourse

(Note this is consistent with most online leftists spaces, so not throwing specific shade on ML, and gets into a whole greater problem with the role social tech platforms play in shaping discourse)

Yes. Agree. And I would suggest it is counterproductive to the point of being counter-revolutionary.

A simulacrum mocking the landscape it seeks to map

Cowbee I like the chart, but respectfully a lot of the rhetoric on ML instances reads closer to trolling than engaging to build a “sympathetic base” , just my 2 cents not worth much more than that ;-)

While I like the effort post, you have to ask, why would contemporary anarchists point to and write about repression and murder from Republican communists, if there was none occurring at the time. They fought on the same side after all.

More of an aside: Most of the time accurate record keeping is not done for this type of action, despite your claim that Soviets would have kept good records.

My understanding is that, the extent of true murder and jail is not well documented - but with many first person accounts detailing pretty significant purging; at a minimum the systemic political repression of which murder (by firing squad and in summary execution in the streets) was a tool (particularly at the top) and disbandment and subsumement of regular anarchist brigades and productive communes into the mainstream army (by force) was what squashed the CNT in Barcelona and this clear in the historical record. Which you do not cover or emphasize in your review.

Aren’t we all

Cool guy you are. Your “guarantee” isn’t worth the bits in your text given we don’t know each other - neither is your disrespect.

But hey keep feeling better than someone else you don’t know if that helps you.

I’m happy as is with my knowledge and political orientation. Was just trying to widen your lens - to understand why someone may support a political doctrine: anarchy, ghat comes from theory and practice which contributed to many positive changes across societies.

… also still waiting for your alternate frame

Name me another leftist ideology that is perfectly constructed and has achieved utopia on mass scale.

I’ll wait while you come up something specific. Until then I will use my ideology as a set of guiding principles towards a more equal society.

Thanks. Also, read theory if you are struggling the above. It helped me

So you’re saying human civilization always operated under a hierarchical body politic without decentralized decision making?

Serious ahistorical claim.

By the way “anarchy” in the sense of childish movie plot stuff is not what any adherent of the ideology is about. Anarchy is a spectrum and set of guiding principles (like any political belief system), and one can argue that forms of what I might identify as anarchistic political structures have and do exist in many political systems. Just like socialism exists in neoconservative governments, and fascism in democracy ect…

Like every single political ideology you rube