I’m just answering a poster saying anarchism is a lot like democratic centralism. Some parts are similar (delegation and recall), others are not at all (vanguard party, dotp)
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I am an ML.
I never said I’m an anarchist I’m just explaining what anarchism is and it’s not what a lot of people here think it is.
how do you expect to protect your revolution with no vanguard or DoTP?
This is literally what I wrote in my first comment:
My disagreement with anarchism is different: I think only a state with a strong coercive apparatus can survive sustained imperial pressure and capitalist encirclement.
Early Soviets maybe, before war communism, for like less than a year… There was a reason anarchists tried to assassinate Lenin as a counterrevolutionary.
The “delegation and recall” part of it? Totally! The “vanguard party” and “DotP” parts? Not so much.
You can call a federation of communes a “state” if you want. Anarchists are not against this kind of “state”. As long as power flows bottom-up by delegation and recall.
I’m not an anarchist, but a lot of people here are misrepresenting anarchism. Anarchists don’t reject coordination or planning, only hierarchical state control. Large infrastructure would be built by federated councils, unions, and communes, with common plans and technical bodies coordinated by accountable, recallable delegates. Central coordination without a state hierarchy is entirely possible.
My disagreement with anarchism is different: I think only a state with a strong coercive apparatus can survive sustained imperial pressure and capitalist encirclement.
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the law of the transformation of quantity into quality is one of the core principles of dialectical materialism
they’re going to kill off the asthmatics so they can keep their NASCAR, drag races, and monster truck shows, aren’t they
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Life in the USSR was so hard people born there in 1968 are 77 now /s