reading the list of ideologies “harmful to the global south” and comparing it to the ideologies that the global south has tried and gotten results from and drawing no conclusions

  • angrytoadnoises
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    10 months ago

    I used to think like this. I really did. Anarcho-Communism was my gateway. You can only really think this way if you don’t read any older theory though.

    • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      I’m definitely an anarchist by disposition and theory, but (like most actual anarchists) I recognize the contributions that vanguard MLs have made/will make, and am happy to work with them. The strong walls between the “ideologies” is mostly an Internet thing, in my experience. The biggest impact it has in the real world is in determining which affinity group you tend to gravitate toward, but at the end of the day we all absolutely can and do work together.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Yeah the real world tends to be less stark in regards to this stuff and more complicated based on situation. The Venezuelan socialists are all sorts of leftists, including a lot of rural indigenous people living in small horizontal communes. I frequently see the EZLN claimed as anarchist, and while they do promote anarchist theory, they’re also collaborators with Cuba.

        Internet arguments are often stuck in the 1930s, back when socialism was still trying to get off the ground in the first place.