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"You believe in what you believe in! You are very owned."
If I didn't oppose the USSR and China, and by proxy, those who vehemently defend and excuse them, I once again, would not be an anarchist at all.
Opposing a defunct state and China? These are your priorities in a world governed by capitalism and American hegemony?
When did I ever say it was my priority? You told me I am "anti-tankie", I assumed it meant I was against those states and I said yes. An anarchist is against states, even revolutionary states. Do you expect an anarchist to abandon their anti-statism if some state challenges America? If yes then tell me, would you abandon your socialism if some fascist nation challenged America?
I never told you that you were anti-tankie, that's something that you self identified yourself as.
I support my anarchist comrades because I'm capable of understanding their position and having a principled disagreement. I would never say that I am "anti-anarchist." My disagreement with them doesn't oblige me to permanent hostility against them or their views.
Okay, you were "owning me" because you thought I self identify as "anti-tankie", everything I said still fully and completely applies.
Do you think I don't have a principled disagreement too? Or why are you bringing that up? I've never said anything against MLism per se in this thread so far. Once again I am merely pointing out the dynamic that happens in "left unity", and what people who call for it expect, aware of it or not.
Not particularly, no
That is nothing but an assumption then, given that, once again, I have never spoken about MLism in this thread.