Why do the anarchists keep using the same western anti-communist propaganda points that the shitlibs and conservatives use too? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[-] burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 6 months ago

Because many anarchists you find online are just left leaning liberals trying to join a subculture. They are after a pseudo-radical group identity, not revolutionary transformation. They are not different from ancaps and right wing libertarians who are more concerned with posing as radicals while they are just reproducing the ideology of the system.

[-] ArcticFoxSmiles@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As someone who used to be a right wing libertarian, I thought the best way to go against the government is to have a limited government. However, I was too uneducated in politics to realize that would just strengthen corporate power. I was never taught that by changing the government to a socialist government that would fix the problem. This changed when I was getting into learning about decolonization and the IMF and the World Bank. I become left-wing after seeing how Haiti used tariffs to counter American businesses only for the America to coup the government and liberalize their economy. I noticed that this was a trend especially regarding the Pink tide in Latin America and in Africa and realized that Libertarianism is not working to counter American power, but in fact enabling it.

[-] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Isn't right-wing libertarianism ancap?

[-] ArcticFoxSmiles@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, Right-wing libertarianism is a range between the standard right-wing libertarianism, neo-conservative infiltrators, and anarcho-capitalists and a few other groups that aren't important.

The two mainstream branches of Right-wing libertarianism:

The standard right-wing libertarianism is more about opposing social welfare and government regulations than conservatives, many are pro-choice , pro-marijuana, anti-war (Non-aggression pact), against NSA mass surveillance, and against the war on drugs. The type of people that wants a government, but do not want it to interfere in their lives. They complain about person freedom, individuality, and the two main party system.

Neo-conservative infiltrators- They call themselves libertarians, but like the neo-liberal infiltrators are trying to bring in check the libertarians who support anti-war policies and try to get them to support American interventions. They can be spotted since many of them are members of the Cato Institute.