I was organizing with a group of (mostly) anarchists today. In my experience every anarchist I’ve organized with in real life is cool af and takes their praxis very seriously with major time commitments focused on improving the lives of workers and lumpen. They are usually hotter than any other tendency too shrug-outta-hecks. No whining about “tankies” or Kronstadt, just showing up to meetings, finding creative solutions and putting in the work.

Despite our nominal non-sectarian rule, I feel like there is still general derision towards anarchists here so I just wanted to remind everyone that these internet anarcho-Atlanticists on [insert dunk_tank instance or subreddit here] are just an online phenomenon and not real life. (Have I met those guys IRL too? Yes, but not in real organizing just in book clubs etc and they are tedious but there’s still more to work with than than a lib.)

So here’s to our anarchist comrades maduro-coffee keep keeping it real

  • Babs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    We have the best anarchists here, because Hexbear has a certain culture to it that makes our anarchists very acceptable to our marxist majority. Irl anarchists can be a mixed bag. Maybe because it’s more common for unread radlibs to call themselves anarchists rather than communists?

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      5 months ago

      Very true. Summer 2020 was a rich time for discovering that most people who purport to be anarchists have listened to a few Robert Evans podcasts and that’s about it.