Most anarchists who are serious are far from tankies. In fact, in my experience, I clash with anarchists because I feel they’re too idealistic and unwilling to use repression on any negative element of society.
There are anarchists who converge with tankies, but generally those are the terminally online sorts who are lonely and seeking a sense of community, rather than committed ideologues.
Or democratic socialists that like to pretend they’re anti-electoral, while still saying pro-Western crap without some modicum of criticism (also though the tankies need their criticism too since often tankies devolves into fascist-adjacent or fascist governments, like China with their genocides and capitalism).
The first world left doesn’t exist, it’s so overly splintered with people threatening each other in knife fights over silly differences, with the spectre of western and eastern propaganda spitroasting first worlders’ minds. We need someone influential in some form to lead everyone that isn’t going to be Napoleon/Stalin 2.0, but that sounds like it’s against conventional Marxist thought, but I don’t have any better ideas.
Anarchist are just tankies who don’t like the term. Kinda like conservatives who say they’re libertarians. They’re just magas with hammer and sickles.
Most anarchists who are serious are far from tankies. In fact, in my experience, I clash with anarchists because I feel they’re too idealistic and unwilling to use repression on any negative element of society.
There are anarchists who converge with tankies, but generally those are the terminally online sorts who are lonely and seeking a sense of community, rather than committed ideologues.
That may be the case outside of the web, but pretty much every anarchist I have run into has been just a tankie that didn’t like the title.
Or democratic socialists that like to pretend they’re anti-electoral, while still saying pro-Western crap without some modicum of criticism (also though the tankies need their criticism too since often tankies devolves into fascist-adjacent or fascist governments, like China with their genocides and capitalism).
The first world left doesn’t exist, it’s so overly splintered with people threatening each other in knife fights over silly differences, with the spectre of western and eastern propaganda spitroasting first worlders’ minds. We need someone influential in some form to lead everyone that isn’t going to be Napoleon/Stalin 2.0, but that sounds like it’s against conventional Marxist thought, but I don’t have any better ideas.
AI generated hammer and sickles
nothing screams anarchist like using GenAI and enabling enshittification.
Or nothing screams “communism” like that either.