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Why are anarchist mutual aid groups always like this? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 month ago by allthetimesivedied2@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I literally just got fucking scolded and told I have some "accountability for my behavior" or whatever because I replied to someone who was insulting me, defaming my character, and lying about me with "Fuck you, you lying piece of shit." This isn't the first time this has happened, and it's always in these anarchist/"radical" mutual aid groups. I was flabbergasted. It was like I was on some other planet.

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[-] Hyper_red@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago

I will also say the big difference I've noticed between joining local ML/maoist groups and anarchist groups is that ML groups are usually mostly men who watch the deprogram and hasan and use too much reddit have never read theory. Anarrchist groups will contain more women, who do not watch hasan or the deprogram, but they also don't read theory.

Trots usually do read theory, but its literally only ever trot theory and nothing else, and every trot group Ive seen has been very equal in gender %.

IDK what this means

[-] fort_burp@feddit.nl 24 points 1 month ago

but they also don’t read theory.

lmao

Fascinating though, fr

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

IDK what this means

Speaking for the UK, the ML groups are almost all dudes because they're sexist terf wankers. The only women in them are terfs, a good portion of them probably fed plants or infiltrators.

All the women with pro-lgbt social views (which is near 100% of women left of liberal) find this a dealbreaker.

Can't speak for elsewhere in the world but sexism is probably holding back women organisers in orgs and it's charismatic visible organising women that tend to attract more women if there are no other dealbreakers.

[-] Hyper_red@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

I wrote a paper once how second wave feminism in the UK only really started because men in all the uk maoist organizations literally couldn't stop themselves from hating women

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I suspect this has been inherited in the left from Men's Working Clubs and the pre-Thatcher left being all-male dirty industry like mining and ship building. The culture transitioned to many of the surviving unions instead and still stinks up the hard-left to this day.

It ironically might be better today if MORE of the left had been destroyed back then so that the culture didn't survive.

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

I will also say the big difference I've noticed between joining local ML/maoist groups and anarchist groups is that ML groups are usually mostly men who watch the deprogram and hasan and use too much reddit

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