Basically, bunch of pro-Ukraine, pro-fascism and state dept line loving anarchists attacked an anti-war demonstration with incredibly based anti-imperialist and codepink founder Medea Benjamin.
Comments in the linked subreddit are worth reading for some highlights from the article (Trueanon is hilariously much more principled ML than deprogram sub on most days)
Archived link to article: https://archive.is/aZjzQ
People say anarchists in real life are better, it’s only the online ones who are liberals… nope. These people are total shills for the state department narrative. Totally useful tools against America’s enemies.
This is your brain on only caring about “authoritarianism” without understanding authority and letting the US state dept and bourgeois press (along with compromised anarchist media like your favorite zine courtesy of the FBI) define what authoritarian means and give you the scales of most and least authoritarian governments.
And these people are shocked when we denounce left unity. As if they did not denounce it first with violence against us.
Where are these “actual anarchists”? Why are they not dealing with these fake anarchists? Unmasking them scoobie-doo style? Humiliating them in public in shouted debate. Shaming them for believing the US state department and not denouncing them for targeting a foreign “authoritarian” government over their own backyard first? Show me a large community of western anarchists, a publication, an online site (or are you saying no anarchists are ever online like ML’s because they’re too busy making weapons in their compound and debating loftily, lol, lmao even) who denounce this shit. I really don’t think you can. Sure, sure I’ll credit you that not all claimed anarchist communities or anarchists online are anarchists, but show me some real ones with some statements strongly contrary to this that aren’t just hand-wringing attempts to avoid being pinned down one way or the other. (Specifically some that are from something more than one person’s random blog/medium account, that have some backing and aren’t filled with seething anarchists calling them a crypto-tankie)
Just because you’ve distributed food besides them doesn’t mean you have proof they don’t want to or aren’t stabbing you in the back marching with liberals and Nazis on the subject of Ukraine and many others like Syria, China, Hong Kong riots, etc.
These are clearly not internet anarchists, they were very real. They went outside. They took the time to organize this and they took real actions, as real as your local food not bombs, as real as meeting up in black bloc to challenge a fascist march. I guess the ones who went to Syria to fight with literal Nazis were just online anarchists too.
And they don’t tank all left protests or movements. They only do so in support of the aesthetic of anarchism. So supporting racist CIA backed and organized kids in Hong Kong against Chinese communist police officers? You bet they do. Supporting the US as the “less authoritarian preferable victor” against Russia because of US propaganda they’ve accepted? You bet. Doesn’t mean they’d support the US rolling tanks into Havana because that goes against the aesthetic but they’re very useful in many ways against actual attempts against AES states, against anti-imperialist actors, in aiding and abetting the US/NATO imperialism machine.
I do not know much about current anarchism, only that there are historical anarchists that oppose Western European states and that ally with USSR.
Granted. I’m not saying all of them ever have been bad. Just that especially in the US and anglosphere in general they have serious issues in the modern day.
Does anybody knows some good sources of where anarchism “went wrong”? I know it could be argued that was always like that but I’m really interested in learning how the currently-prevalent flavor of the West’s extreme “tankie”-dunking, terminally online, utterly unprincipled anarkiddies came about. I have heard from here and there that this is encouraged by the FBI and other such agencies. Not looking for liberal sources.
A certain georgian poet and labor organizer wrote a bit about just that during his youth.
Oh yeah. Good ol’ Joey