I think it was folks inside Russia. From the Telegram channels I am in, at least one Anarcho-Communist group is claiming it as being them. BOAK is their initials “Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists”. So far they have claimed a number of rail line sabotage attacks and some fire bomb attacks on (I think) recruitment building(s).
I respect that they are willing to do more than just talk of taking actions, but I do wish they would be working against all nations involved (given they are Anarcho-Communists). At bare minimum I would at least like to see the Anarchists and Anarcho-Communists fighting for Ukraine start merc-ing the open/known fascists on that side of the war. They can’t attack Russia because of their thoughts of Putin being fascist while expecting that the very real ones in Ukraine will just go away. And it would be best to take out said fascists now while they are very visible and in groups. It is also much easier to get all kinds of weapons to go hunting Nazis than it was before shit popped-off.
I respect that they are willing to do more than just talk of taking actions,
You respect that anarchists are doing the dirty work of the CIA? You respect them heightening tensions at a moment where the threat of nuclear war is high. You respect unprincipled adventurist violence? Ignorance. Disgusting.
but I do wish they would be working against all nations involved (given they are Anarcho-Communists).
Oh yes, equivocation. The tool of the propagandized, the coward, or both. Maybe, just maybe it’s in a way a small miracle that Russia hasn’t folded under the pressure already and is still standing tall. Certainly the collective west thought they would and are upset by this fact. It’s almost as if Russia is outside the club of dominance, hegemony, and imperialist-capitalist violence monopoly of NATO/Eyes/US-puppets and the US (aka the other side) is inside and the far greater threat. So maybe, just maybe, attacking Russia even equally as the US/NATO (as if, come on) would still be doing the US a great favor and advantaging them. This is the kind of childish thinking I’m so tired of from anarchists. All sides are nowhere near equal.
Anarchists are often puppets of reaction and adventurism is bad and often serves capital. Anything beyond mutual aid they do has often been to the detriment of the anti-capitalist cause. Certainly given how many we see joining literal Nazis in Ukraine to fight by them, the fact those in the west rather than rejecting western propaganda eat it up and only scream “neither Washington nor Moscow” while continuing to repeat Washington’s version of events, Washington’s lies, and cheering openly for Washington’s fascist puppets.
Anyone who says it’s only online anarchists who are liberals need look no further than what happened during the Soviet revolutionary period, need look no further than what’s going on now. Yeah there are good anarchists on the periphery. But clearly those within the imperial core, the US, most of western Europe (the core countries, not places like Greece and maybe not even France given their revolutionary spirit hasn’t been totally crushed) and especially the reactionary hellscape of former Soviet states in eastern Europe seem to me to be deeply compromised effectively by the NATO propaganda.
Feels like, for every noble, principled anarchist who I can respect who sees through the propaganda and refuses to repeat it and support fascist puppets of the NATO monstrosity, who understand geopolitics and have some basic grasps of the main enemies of anti-capitalism and can think and act tactically, there are 2 in person and two dozen online who do the opposite. Again at least in the imperial core and those areas I outlined.
I think it was folks inside Russia. From the Telegram channels I am in, at least one Anarcho-Communist group is claiming it as being them. BOAK is their initials “Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists”. So far they have claimed a number of rail line sabotage attacks and some fire bomb attacks on (I think) recruitment building(s).
I respect that they are willing to do more than just talk of taking actions, but I do wish they would be working against all nations involved (given they are Anarcho-Communists). At bare minimum I would at least like to see the Anarchists and Anarcho-Communists fighting for Ukraine start merc-ing the open/known fascists on that side of the war. They can’t attack Russia because of their thoughts of Putin being fascist while expecting that the very real ones in Ukraine will just go away. And it would be best to take out said fascists now while they are very visible and in groups. It is also much easier to get all kinds of weapons to go hunting Nazis than it was before shit popped-off.
You respect that anarchists are doing the dirty work of the CIA? You respect them heightening tensions at a moment where the threat of nuclear war is high. You respect unprincipled adventurist violence? Ignorance. Disgusting.
Oh yes, equivocation. The tool of the propagandized, the coward, or both. Maybe, just maybe it’s in a way a small miracle that Russia hasn’t folded under the pressure already and is still standing tall. Certainly the collective west thought they would and are upset by this fact. It’s almost as if Russia is outside the club of dominance, hegemony, and imperialist-capitalist violence monopoly of NATO/Eyes/US-puppets and the US (aka the other side) is inside and the far greater threat. So maybe, just maybe, attacking Russia even equally as the US/NATO (as if, come on) would still be doing the US a great favor and advantaging them. This is the kind of childish thinking I’m so tired of from anarchists. All sides are nowhere near equal.
Anarchists are often puppets of reaction and adventurism is bad and often serves capital. Anything beyond mutual aid they do has often been to the detriment of the anti-capitalist cause. Certainly given how many we see joining literal Nazis in Ukraine to fight by them, the fact those in the west rather than rejecting western propaganda eat it up and only scream “neither Washington nor Moscow” while continuing to repeat Washington’s version of events, Washington’s lies, and cheering openly for Washington’s fascist puppets.
Anyone who says it’s only online anarchists who are liberals need look no further than what happened during the Soviet revolutionary period, need look no further than what’s going on now. Yeah there are good anarchists on the periphery. But clearly those within the imperial core, the US, most of western Europe (the core countries, not places like Greece and maybe not even France given their revolutionary spirit hasn’t been totally crushed) and especially the reactionary hellscape of former Soviet states in eastern Europe seem to me to be deeply compromised effectively by the NATO propaganda.
Feels like, for every noble, principled anarchist who I can respect who sees through the propaganda and refuses to repeat it and support fascist puppets of the NATO monstrosity, who understand geopolitics and have some basic grasps of the main enemies of anti-capitalism and can think and act tactically, there are 2 in person and two dozen online who do the opposite. Again at least in the imperial core and those areas I outlined.