why do so many people seem to have a hierarchy allergy round these Western leftist parts

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[–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm saying it doesn't require hard work. People can just adopt anarchism without having to change much at all. You don't have to read much, study at all, etc. of course people do that within anarchism but there are plenty of anarchists who think reading itself is bourgeois, literally.

I'll also say that, having worked in anarchist mutual aid spaces for a long time, people are burning themselves out doing "hard work" but not accomplishing much. I think this is by design, because these groups reject structure and material analysis, they do things in ways that exhaust resources quickly to produce worse results. I've seen countless regular people see how anarchists are operating their mutual aid programs and say "ew get me out of here " because of how poorly run and low quality they were. Rotting food and volunteers who are drunk or high, allowing abusers to be around because there is no system to get rid of them, general unprofessional behavior that makes average people unable to trust them.

To your last part, the most anti-marxist people I interact with regularly are the most well studied anarchists I know. They've read all the anarchist lit which is why they feel confident rejecting Marxism.

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