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[–] 26 points 2 years ago

Of course. Under the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When the most pressing conflicts are between anarchists and communists, the most important victories will already have been won

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s why the Big Tent strategy is pretty good, and depending on the place you may get lots of support. There were even some elements of the petty bourgeois that supported North Vietnam for independence against France and US aggression. And Luna Oi has said before that Vietnam has an anarchist feel to it, not everything is done by the government and plenty of people help each other directly without government involvement, not to say that they don’t reap massive benefits from their Marxist government tho. Her Deprogram guest ep was really good.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What's the Big Tent strategy?

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  • Big Tent in political strategy means joining together towards a common goal. I, Person A, may not share all of the beliefs of Person B. But Person B agrees with me on a vital issue that is of particular (and usually an immediate and urgent) concern for our area. So we join together in a Big Tent Coalition, trying to sway as many people as possible towards our position so that Person C , our common enemy, doesn’t gain any ground. These coalitions usually are short-lived but it’s fine if everyone involved understands the nature of the coalition

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Once socialism has brought us world wide communism, sure UwU But honestly I don't think Anarchists and Communists could coexist in times where it would be important to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Or generally, in times where Communism hasn't yet been brought about. The Anarchists would simply disagree with our approach and fight against it, I assume. So I'd say they'd stand in our way big time.. Same with the Trotskyists.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I've considered myself an anarchist for most of my life. I organize with people who are too, but I also routinely go to meetings with explicitly Marxist organizations and do shit with them because I'm a centrist.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    ok, sorry, sometimes i forget that i'm on lemmygrad. when you said you were a centrist i thought you meant like a lib or something. my bad.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    We historically aren’t usually the ones who fuck up that alliance. Typically(and this is really generalizing, not always true or in this order) the Left in general work together against the Fascists, the Reds then use their authority to try to keep the Revolution on the right path. Then the Anarchists come out either trying to revolt by themselves or they join a color revolution that the bourgeoisie create and they don’t think twice about it. It’s the duty of the Marxists to be open with their beliefs. We aren’t a final boss or anything who “betrays you at the last second, because we had devious plans that we were hiding from the start”, that’s weird af, we let Anarchists know that Big tent will work for a while, but at some point you need to start reading Theory to understand how and why authority is necessary.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Would anarchists be okay with an "authoritarian" dicatatorship of the proletariat? Or would MLs be pkay with an anarchist government ripe for exploitation by foreign powers? I'd say no, so it would be highly unlikely after the initial overthrow of capitalist power.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Joseph Stalin's "Anarchism or Socialism" is a pretty clear and concise piece on this question that always gets recommended as introductory Marxist-Leninist reading so I'm surprised it hasn't been recommended in this thread yet.

    We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism. Accordingly, we also hold that a real struggle must be waged against real enemies.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    only westerners come to anarchism and all other idiotic ideological deviations .

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Yes. It's a temporary distinction at best.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I don't think they're compatible in the long-term. I think there's room to work together on shared goals (the end of capitalism or dunking on shitlibs here), but I don't think we have the same end goals.

    From my understanding, the communism MLs refer to is an efficiently administered, high technology, advanced industrial society. My understanding of the end-goal of anarchists is not compatible with that society.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    no, we can coexist and even collaborate before and during a revolution but after it, it needs to be decided if a socialist state will emerge or an anarchist society...there simply is no middle-ground between so called "anarchism" and a government so one has to go

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    History says no. But who knows what a reconstructed Europe and North America would look like? It would be a novel situation to say the least, so if capital were to be defeated maybe a society could be built by collaboration between the two.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am curious though, why did you only specify Europe and North America for a place of coexistence?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Anarchism is primarily a western ideology, but has existed long enough at this point to be a real material force in western society with arguably more influence than Marxism (probably not, but at least culturally it is). In a post-capitalist society, it may be necessary to collaborate with them in reconstruction at least in the short term. This goes without saying, but knowing what the future holds is impossible and there are many possibilities. I think most likely BIPOC nations will need to subjugate settler populations for a period of time making this idea of collaboration pretty much irrelevant, but I also don't want to discard the possibility entirely.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you really realistically think that Marxist-Leninists can cooperate with the ones who view us as literal fascists?

    Do you realistically believe that the ones who are against authority and centralization and sometimes even work will last long enough to coexist with Marxist-Leninists?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    To be fair, those kinds of "anarchists" are just confused social liberals with no real theoretical grounding, it would be like comparing MLs to the worst of the neocon pseudo-trots who populate so much of western marxian space

    It's never a good idea to succumb to sectarianism for the sake of dunking on what is essentially an online "posting-style" Marxists of any type have to focus on the real and actual conditions of capitalism, not on old ghosts or liberals engaging in radical kayfabe

    There are real anarchists out there, they're just not online

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    There are lots of people who are anarchists because they like the aesthetics, just as there are some people who just like the aesthetics of communism (PatSocs, for example). What a person self-desribes as only tells you so much. As I like to say, for any given definition of socialism that you can imagine, you can always find someone who agrees and thinks it's bad and someone who agrees and thinks it's good.

    I'd also like to point out that Mao was an anarchist at one point, funny enough.

    I think it really depends on the person and the context. Communists and anarchists co-exist right now but I'm guessing that's not what you mean.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Depends on what principles they have

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