• ☭ Blursty ☭
    274·
    1 year ago

    My experience with anarchists since the start of this war has completely destroyed any faith I had in it being any kind of honestly held or principled ideology. It’s simply a set of excuses for liberals to pretend they’re progressives and nothing much more. Jumping from one American imperialist propaganda point to the next seamlessly, from Libya to Xinjiang, Taiwan to Ukraine. It’s just a right wing Libertarian’s idea of what a leftist is.

    • loathsome dongeaterAEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      It doesn’t have much to do with anarchism though. Most of them just sound like “progressive” liberals with run of the mill racist and orientalist perceptions of Russia, China and the rest of the third world that Westerners have.

        • GarbageShootAltEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          I think you’re mistaken and reasoning backwards from the assumption that these are anarchists who re-adopted neoliberalism rather than liberalism who found anarchism to be the most appealing consumer-identity without really challenging most of their existing ideology or assumptions.

            • GarbageShootAltEnglish
              41·
              1 year ago

              Like all things, there is variance. We know it is unfair to conflate all MLs with “patsoc” or red/brown types. Even if we still disagree with them, let’s have a little bit of charity for the good faith anarchists.

  • 0x4E4F
    9·
    1 year ago

    Know exactly how the poor fella feels 😞.

  • Machindo@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Sorry I’m bumping an old post but I’d like to understand why the hate for the DSA.

    I’m an extreme leftist in most people’s opinions and I like the values of the DSA.

    Please be kind.

      • Machindo@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        I definitely vibe with the Marxism/Leninism but I don’t know how to put it into practice.

        I hate the Democratic party and I thought joining the Democratic Socialists of America was a good thing to do. Is the DSA not extreme enough or have they been to complicit with the establishment. My initial question was prompted by the meme which indicated the DSA.

        I am so torn as to how to be effective at both the federal and state/local elections.

        What is the best thing I can do?

        (Side question, the rest of Lemmy, that seems mostly liberal/leftist seems to act like Lemmygrad is too extreme. I think you all are great so I’m confused. Also they call you tankies which seems unfair the way they mean it.)