Including like anarcho-syndicalists, anarcho-communists, left coms, libertarian marxists, left libertarians and so on.
Please reblog if you are one, I want to see if there are enough of us to fill Rhode Island.
libertarian marxists? my head is spinning – no marxist is ‘anti-authoritarian’ lol.
Leftcoms kinda are tho. I mean like the difference between them and a lot of anarchists as far as I can tell is semantic more than anything else.
Also you’re a primitivist, why are you here?
There are pretty clear differences between leftcoms and anarchists, and I’d say that many leftcoms just think the notion of ‘anti-authoritarian’ is bizarre or nonsensical. If a revolution isnt an exercise of extreme authority IDK what is.
Many leftcoms support parties, are in favour of the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ which they believe does constitute a state of sorts – in that it’s primary purpose is to suppress the competing class ie. the bourgeoisie.
Generally the only way to tie those groups together is in a particular commitment to internationalism.
But yes, primitivist critiques should be ignored lol
Yeah but like the anarchists I know would be like “a revolution is the many against the authority of the few, and thus not the same as authoritarianism” and then like if you abolish the bourgeoisie during the revolution, does the state dissolve? Also like depending on what parties do, a lot of the good Anarchists I know would just call them organizations so like, it seems fairly semantic in a lot of ways to me.
Platformists, syndicalists, left coms, like mostly basically similar if you ask me.
IDK any anarchists who talk about the relationship between the party and the workers councils, because they deny the possibility of the former existing and being revolutionary. So I mean I think there are a lot of semantic differences – and some are more close than others (Councilists and Syndicalists being much more similar than Bordigists and syndicalists) but there are some actual differences as well. If we just mean “communists who aren’t ML(M)s or Trotskyists of any kind” then that’s fair enough since the majority of Marxist organisations we come across are one or the other
They’d just call it the broader union or organization or what have you. I guess I know a lot of Councilists and Syndicalists (also especifismists)
Another basis of unity or common ground could be the absolute unflinching emphasis on the need for internationalist proletarian *independent* political organisation. This usually entails a rejection of NatLib which is, ah, controversial I suppose
Most of my friends are pro-NatLib provided it’s not like the whole tankie “let’s embrace Assad as anti-imperialist” thing… and like decolonization and shit is important but also having like internationalist analysis and what not… and again not being like “Putin is anti-imperialist” because… no.
I mean I’m just a general sort of “well a lot of these sound better than the thing we have now,”-ist. I mean I don’t think I’d even mind Leninism if it did what it said on the tin but it never does.
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