love it when anarchokiddies hate the very idea of governments existing so strongly that they blind themselves to reality :/
You can provide an anarchist everything they’d ever need to realize that [insert government] is objectively supportable, and they’ll prefer the non-source that supports their bias instead.
You can show them textbooks upon textbooks on the genuine good China is doing in the world, they’ll point you towards a hit piece that was likely written by the CIA to disprove you. You can tell them about the wonderful things Cuba is doing with medical internationalism, and they’ll point you to a still image of protesters taken out of context.
Just because the government they grew up under sucks, they choose to believe that all governments do. And refuse to accept that their bias is dead wrong, and their aversion to “statist” politics only hurts the left.
One easy way to think of it, is that anarchists, like other groups, are getting the primary contradiction / conflict wrong. They can’t even identify what’s wrong with the world correctly, so of course their answers are completely irrelevant; they have to create their own alternate-reality based on no evidence, and untried idealistic scenarios. This is why Lenin railed on the anarchists for not caring about the immediate tasks of the proletarian dictatorship: building an army, crushing capital and preserving itself.
Anti-semites for example think the primary contradiction is between “jewish bankers” and the people, conspiracy theorists think its between the “illuminati mason 5G lizard-men” and the people. Libertarians, liberals, and anarchists think its between “the state” and the people. As Marxists we know the primary contradiction is between capitalists and workers.
Side-point, but I’ve seen this a lot in discussions about the sex-trade recently. Anarchists mis-identify the main contradiction in the sex-trade as between “cops vs everyone else”. In reality its between johns and person selling themselves, the battleground being the body / sexual autonomy of the victim: the john wanting as much dominion over the body of their “purchase” for as little as possible. Because of this mis-analysis, anarchists see no problem whatsoever with sex-buyers, the multi-billion-dollar rape industry, and they functionally work for its expansion.
love it when anarchokiddies hate the very idea of governments existing so strongly that they blind themselves to reality :/
You can provide an anarchist everything they’d ever need to realize that [insert government] is objectively supportable, and they’ll prefer the non-source that supports their bias instead.
You can show them textbooks upon textbooks on the genuine good China is doing in the world, they’ll point you towards a hit piece that was likely written by the CIA to disprove you. You can tell them about the wonderful things Cuba is doing with medical internationalism, and they’ll point you to a still image of protesters taken out of context.
Just because the government they grew up under sucks, they choose to believe that all governments do. And refuse to accept that their bias is dead wrong, and their aversion to “statist” politics only hurts the left.
One easy way to think of it, is that anarchists, like other groups, are getting the primary contradiction / conflict wrong. They can’t even identify what’s wrong with the world correctly, so of course their answers are completely irrelevant; they have to create their own alternate-reality based on no evidence, and untried idealistic scenarios. This is why Lenin railed on the anarchists for not caring about the immediate tasks of the proletarian dictatorship: building an army, crushing capital and preserving itself.
Anti-semites for example think the primary contradiction is between “jewish bankers” and the people, conspiracy theorists think its between the “illuminati mason 5G lizard-men” and the people. Libertarians, liberals, and anarchists think its between “the state” and the people. As Marxists we know the primary contradiction is between capitalists and workers.
Side-point, but I’ve seen this a lot in discussions about the sex-trade recently. Anarchists mis-identify the main contradiction in the sex-trade as between “cops vs everyone else”. In reality its between johns and person selling themselves, the battleground being the body / sexual autonomy of the victim: the john wanting as much dominion over the body of their “purchase” for as little as possible. Because of this mis-analysis, anarchists see no problem whatsoever with sex-buyers, the multi-billion-dollar rape industry, and they functionally work for its expansion.