"You're using history as a scoreboard, and you aren't even in the game."

Hmm, what was the "5-Anti movement", and the massive strikes happening with autonomous workers unions being disappointed that the conditions weren't being met for actual change.

The capitulation the state made was nothing more than reformism.

They kinda f***ed up by copying the Soviet model for class collaboration with the "five-year plan"

...by 1953 approximately 80 percent of the managerial personnel were of bourgeois background and 37 percent of these were pre-1949 graduates, returned overseas Chinese students, or factory owners. ... By 1953 only 20 percent or so of managerial and technical personnel was made up of urban Communist Party members, promoted workers or directors and trade-union officials appointed directly by the Party.

Let me guess, every threat against the state isn't the fault of the state's shortcoming of their promises, it's actually the fault of CAPITALIST SABOTEURS WHO WANT TO DESTROY THE GLORIOUS PEOPLE'S STATE OF ONE-PARTY DEMOCRACY

Sorry, but dressing up like ninjas and fighting guys from 4chan while the police watch isn't helping the working class. The feds love anarchists. Great for domestic terror plots. They spent 50 years destroying every union in the country. Funneling any leftists to anarcho-syndicalism or whatever has been a dub. If you can recognize that class power exists, you should recognize that fighting that war on a million individual, horizontal fronts is a losing battle.

I'd argue any anarchists or libertarian socialists don't argue for individual fronts, people argue for horizontal organization.

Also, the feds love ML/Maoist groups a bit more, every established group in the country has a track record of being infiltrated successfully, and some were even fed fronts. PSL and CPUSA most likely are.

Unions are not anarchist institutions.
Worker co-ops are anarchist non-institutions.
Unions fielded soldiers against the capitalist state.
Worker co-ops write newsletters about worker co-ops.

I'm not an anarcho-syndicalist though?

I support them, but I don't think there's any big relevance in trade union organizing right now for anything interesting, like there was in the past.

Remember when Mao had the Shanghai's People's Commune basically destroyed because he didn't like that they got too demanding for his tastes?

Also the 100 Flowers fiasco is kinda funny, because he asked for critiques, he got them, then he immediately moved against dissent he didn't personally like.

I just think my thoughts are very easy to understand somewhat, but no, we need a mommy and daddy state to keep kids away from playing video games, because that's counter-revolutionary western dogma and Marx and Lenin certainly wouldn't approve.

ALL GLORY TO RYAN XI, THE TRUE TORCHBEARER OF MAO'S LEGACY.

ALSO TENCENT CORPORATE MONOPOLY VERY GOOD AND SOCIALIST

I have no clue what you are. You think unions are weak but antifa is going to defeat capitalism. You think that communists are bad and unions are good. I mean, we're arguing about the existence of the state. You're an anti-federalist. I feel like I took a time machine to the 18th century.

And yes, please list more examples of anarchists getting absolutely washed by capitalists and communists alike. You're making a great case for their effectiveness.

"The revolution will be streamed on Twitch"

Alright man, well it's clear nobody has to worry about you.
Just don't let a guy in Oakleys calling himself antifa fill your trunk with fertilizer.

Have fun with Maslow's Hammer, and I don't advocate nor agree with for horrible actions like that, those are extremely dangerous and can cause severe human tragedy. Only white supremacists and idiotic anti-civ LARPers say s*** like that.

Have fun with Trotsky's ice pick

honestly i only argue to test my own knowledge, but i read for my own enjoyment and benefit.

even if i never had to argue w another anticommunist id still be reading becuz there is just too much i know i don't know and no other way to find information that isn't drenched in liberal slop.

plus there is a great sense of peace you get - or at least i get - from ironing out your own personal understanding of society and the ways in which cultural hegemony permeates our lives from the seconds we're born. feels like you're hammering your understanding of existence and refining the total accumulation of your life's experience.

i honestly hated reading until i just found the right philosophy, history and poetry and im typing to you mostly in the off chance that i can in some small way share w u the type of enjoyment i get from it myself

i meant the 1873 anarcho syndicalists but even then the spanish antifascists in the spanish civil war (tho admirable) were ultimately crushed due to capitalist encirclement. any anarchists who actually vouched to defend the revolution joined the republicans in fighting the fascists. the remainder were left anticommunists declaring opposition to the republicans AS they were fighting the fascists.

the franco nationalists receiving so much direct aid from fascist italy and germany as well as portugal directly lead to their military competency.

at the same time the left leaning Popular Front in France promised aid but were blocked by liberal elements in France and Britain while also simultaneously tremendously hindering the soviet unions ability to lend aid.

if the conditions of the war were to have remained without any external support the anarchists would have won with popular support. the difference was the neutering of the Soviet Union and the progressives in France's ability to support the republicans.

on the second point, decentralized fighting forces are strong in a protracted war if they have popular support. the anarchist juntas in 1873 spain were crushed because of the fragmentation in their organization as each town operated independently and stateless.

I mean he does talk abt theory tho lol

True

He shouldn't be seen as a serious leftist public intellectual obv lol

Just a streamer who's a leftist it's not that srs

To be a leftist you have to be more informed about your own and other political ideologies, because if you're not you'll just be a liberal since the standard way of thinking anout politics in the West is liberal and you're just gonna blindly adopt those views unless you make a conscious effort to inform yourself

Lmao

Vaush gonna turn fascist in before the end of the 2024 elections

Just a prediction

"Bourgeoisie is when you have a powerful position in government"