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Anarchism is a social movement that seeks liberation from oppressive systems of control including but not limited to the state, capitalism, racism, sexism, speciesism, and religion. Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

sectarianism is only something that a tankie cares about when we won’t bend the knee.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tankie

Do you know the historical origins of the term, tankie, perchance?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It specifically was a slander against Khruschev for putting down a "revolution" in Hungary. That revolution was a CIA-backed "color revolution." where fascists were doing pogroms against Jews and Communists.

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/VRz8Ef9DqP.png

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sectarianism is only something that a tankie cares about when we won’t bend the knee.

God yes I love the drama of you reddit liberals, so greasy thick like machine lube. Ominous period at the end and everything:farquaad-point:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

good point, i guess that's why historically anarchists get crushed after the revolution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yes, which is why anyone calling for “left unity” makes us suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

all authoritarianism is bad, all hierarchies are bad. not sure how you plan to get anything accomplished being nice to capitalists but good luck! no hierarchies going to get you crushed by a semi modern army. so many anarchists want to skip the work and get right to utopia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why are you insulting anarchism in the anarchy forum?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Raddle wrecker started the thread, youre continuing it, as am i. Why are you on Hexbear if its filled with "tankieeeeez". you came in with an agenda. you keep saying "tankies" so much its meaningless. im supposed to debate an asshole on the internet in good faith? how about fuck off?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I keep accounts on a lot of other right wing extremist websites too. It lets me keep track of dangerous groups.

For instance, I was active on kiwifarms for years. That obviously doesn’t mean I support them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

oh youre so vigilant, the world thanks you for your brave service of being on the internet. o7

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’ve helped take a lot of authoritarians off of the internet and I will keep doing that. You all eventually self-doxx.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

" I’ve helped take a lot of authoritarians off of the internet and I will keep doing that. You all eventually self-doxx."

I see, so admitting to the shit you pull in other spaces. Don't worry, you will eventually self-doxx too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you explain what you mean by authoritarian?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Look up what the three arrows represent. Legitimate antifascism is fighting against all of the arrows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the symbol has been used in many different contexts by a variety of anti-fascist, social democratic and democratic socialist organisations

I'm asking what you, specifically, mean by "authoritarian"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

You’re always telling people to read theory, so go read some of my work:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-eradicate-left-unity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Read theory, and by theory I mean my shitty blog post".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Um, no, it isn’t.

Truly, one the great theorists of our age :very-smart:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'mma let you know this. Your writing is shit. Get someone else to edit this and use normal people words. If you're trying to make theoretical contributions don't write like a redditor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ that is a wall of unhinged screeds against muh red fash tankies with absolutely no analysis, just "here's something the makes me mad, watch me react to it with terminally online vocabulary". Theory implies I'll learn something from critical analysis, not a glimpse into the mind of a madman. What you linked is some weird manifesto about how you'd rather die under the boot of capitalism than ever work with others who have similar ideas of what is important but different ideas on how to reach them. Shows how serious you are about accomplishing those goals as some comfortable global north netizen posting their way to freedom apparently.

No wonder you can't define what you mean by authoritarian, I don't think you know.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Once the transition to their new religion is complete, almost immediately, any ideas that conflict with the writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Deng and Xi (never mind that they all contradict with each other) create desperate cognitive dissonance in their minds. So these pasty emotionally-stunted people angrily lash out at the unindoctrinated for being “radlibs”, “western chauvinists” and “imperialists” rather than risk parting with their new-found identity, community and belonging.

Once the majority in the newly minted left-unity community are comfortable joking about rounding up and killing “kulaks”, “anarchist bandits” or more recently “Uighur terrorists” and quoting Chinese state media to counter all the “imperialist western propaganda” from the mouths of the various minority groups being imprisoned and enslaved by the Chinese state (for their own good, they’ll insist), the shaming campaign begins.

Anyone in the space who breaks with the red fash party line is lambasted and ridiculed into submission. The remaining libertarians in the space now find themselves hopelessly outnumbered by scornful white settlers with daddy issues telling them they’re imperialist CIA stooges for thinking the Uighurs maybe shouldn’t be put in concentration camps or the Hong Kong and Tibetan people should get self-determination (watch tankies insist Tibetans who don’t want to be ruled by China are fascists and China is, in fact, saving them from themselves).

What part of this do you not understand?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Tibetan theocratic aristocracy of old does not represent the peasantry they enslaved. That's like saying Emancipation was "freeing Southerners from themselves". There were slaves, slavers, and yeomen. It freed group one from group two.

Regarding genocide: https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/3182072

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are Tibetans and Muslims in Xinjiang that didn't want to be ruled by the Chinese. For Tibet, those monarchists (because that is what they were and still are) took their shot at counter-revolution and failed, and when they failed they ran away to complain in luxury in the West like every comprador class before them. They sought to use their own authority to retain power and failed because, honestly, the peasantry was pretty sick of their shit.

Within Xinjiang, the popular sentiment was with joining with China, because the alternative was becoming a completely land-locked country at the mercy of it's neighbors, far better to ally with the regional power. In the light of multiple devastating terrorist attacks that primarily killed Xinjiang Muslims, mandatory education for adults was installed, and the facilities to bring about that policy was made, alongside checkpoint systems across the region (a system that would be re-used in order to combat COVID a decade later). There were no genocides in Xinjiang, no U.S. style door-to-door raids and mass arbitrary imprisonment of military age males. You either showed up to school or you were sent to jail, so most showed up. And it's been effective because there have been no terrorist attacks since these policies were implemented, even as they have been wound down by the state.

If Hong Kong gets self-determination, it might surprise you to learn that the majority would probably vote to join China. We can guess that because the majority faction within the Hong-Kong government is the pro-CPC faction, unless you are meaning to imply that Hong-Kong might not be a bastion of freedom and democracy (which is where my money is honestly).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think polling shows that most people in HK support the mainland anyway, though of course this is due to support from the poorer population and not the mostly wealthy ones who made up the HK rioters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most of it to be quite honest. Is it that we're just all hopelessly caught in an echo chamber unlike your enlightened self who is active on far right and far left forums to synthesize a truly correct take? Because if that's the case, I think you need to work on your presentation and sourcing, reading your writing is a slog ignoring the actual substance

p.s. still waiting to see what authoritarian means to you, was a simple question you have continued to avoid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's honestly embarrassing that people like you are running around acting like you are any kind of authority on anarchism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

hahahahahahahahahaahah oh fuck, you think youre breaking the mold. anarchy can't progress with shit contributions like that. what a long and thought out rant you have against anti capitalists, :LIB:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So I interpret this as a threat to dox hexbear users?

In the spectrum of political action you could take outside of organizations (which I would suggest, go into some collectives) you decide to dox people creating and participating safe spaces for trans people online (since you label their brand of political action as authoritarian or as tolerant of authoritarianism you see in pretty much any ML form).

This means you are purging leftist elements instead of trying to broaden or create bases of power or free spaces for anti hierarchical ideologies. Sounds pretty authoritarian to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also pretty laughable that id ever be fired from my job for being a socialist tbh. It only works against fascists because they are so reprehensible and incapable of working on a team

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is good that you got a good job, but I know plenty of places were people would be fired from for participating or even visiting hexbear regularly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i mean yeah, if you have a conservative nutjob as your boss even just being a hillary supporter will get you fired. most big corporations though, they dont care as long as they make money. in fact most people know that im a socialist at work already :shrug-outta-hecks:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

If you’re not doing anything wrong, then you don’t have anything to worry about.

It’s very telling how much this site loves talking about “purges”. Authoritarians aren’t leftist. Removing them from the internet is a type of antifascist action and I will never apologize for being antifascist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're not doing anything wrong, then you don't have anything to worry about.

:the-pigs:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have literally no idea what this is supposed to mean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/705002 Love to have the same rhetorical argument as based antifacist Joseph Goebbels :LIB::unity::frothingfash:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you’re not doing anything wrong, then you don’t have anything to worry about.

Here's an easy one: closeted or passing people being outed and thereby being exposed to violence and harassment. Any communist in South Korea or other countries where it is illegal. Anyone even substantially adjacent to protest actions where a "frisky" PD has jurisdiction.

You are the absolute epitome of useful idiocy if you aren't just a fed -- which I don't say often but am forced to consider here with an anarchist who says US lawbreakers have a police raid coming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Authoritarians aren’t leftist. Removing them from the internet is a type of antifascist action

So we all agree purging fascists is good. We just understand who fascists are and accept the idea that using force against them (i.e., purges) is good, while you don't have a fucking clue who fascists are and use some bullshit reasoning to say that your purges aren't really purges.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you’re not doing anything wrong, then you don’t have anything to worry about.

hahahah omfg, from the king of anti-authoritarians. youre a fucking liar and hypocrite who needs to brush up on some basic word definitions.

you admit to your own "purges" and claim to not be authoritarian. stop being an edgy teen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao you're telling me you're an "anarchist" who volunteers as an internet cop?

Go outside. Find a hobby. Meet people in real life

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I attend plenty of meetings offline. No-one who has ever done anything in real life would call me a cop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

oh no, being called a cop and told to go outside and touch grass in online spaces where you harass and doxx people? You mother fucking hypocrite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you're not a cop, you're doing a cop's job

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do they know about you doxing MLs and even anarchists over sectarian disagreement?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

wow youre anarchist Chris Hansen! should i take a seat?