[ARCHIVED] Shit Liberals Say

US is a state built on racism and class divide, that actively seeks imperialist aims

USSR was a state built on crushing capitalism, that never actively participated in imperialism

yep, keep telling me how the USSR and the US are exactly the same, anarkiddies. Black people and women were complete equals to white men in the USSR, and in East Germany transfolk and homosexuals were complete equals too... something that still isn't true in the US. but, I mean, keep going off about how the USSR was oppressive and evil.

Anarchists are petit-bourgeois who come from the middle upper classes

To them the slavic Russians languishing at an average life expectancy of 39 and near complete illiterate population doesnt matter. It doesn't matter that the Slavs were considered a lesser race that industrialised at such a heroic pace to defeat the Nazis and go toe to toe with the USA and having incredible achievements to their name

When the Communists liberated the concentration camps after defeating Germany which had subdued most of Europe none of that mattered either

And when Russia had built a base for socialism which acted as a ripple in a pond which helped liberation movements all across the globe and sped up decolonisation none of that mattered either

To them, in their detached petit-bourgeois mindset, taking our current reality and changing it (by imperfect people creating imperfect structures) does not meet their utopian demands to abolish the state whilst capitalist imperialism exists.

Which is tantamount to surrender.

I subscribe to Lenin's distinction between Marxism and Anarchism that he presents in The State and Revolution:

The distinction between Marxists and the anarchists is this: (1) The former, while aiming at the complete abolition of the state, recognize that this aim can only be achieved after classes have been abolished by the socialist revolution, as the result of the establishment of socialism, which leads to the withering away of the state. The latter want to abolish he state completely overnight, not understanding the conditions under which the state can be abolished. (2) The former recognize that after the proletariat has won political power it must completely destroy the old state machine and replace it by a new one consisting of an organization of the armed workers, after the type of the Commune. The latter, while insisting on the destruction of the state machine, have a very vague idea of what the proletariat will put in its place and how it will use its revolutionary power. The anarchists even deny that the revolutionary proletariat should use the state power, they reject its revolutionary dictatorship. (3) The former demand that the proletariat be trained for revolution by utilizing the present state. The anarchists reject this.