The USSR and China each brought hundreds of millions from barely subsisting to lifestyles comparable to the west within a single lifetime and made great progress on LGBT+ rights. Cuba has a higher life expectancy than the US despite the blockade and constant attempts at destabilization.
You shouldn’t compare the USSR to a fantasy utopia, you should compare it to the actual alternatives we’ve seen in reality, Tsarist and modern Russia.
Anarchist projects have yet to manage step 0: Resist capitalist encirclement for more than like 5 minutes so we don’t have any actually existing examples to study.
The Zapatistas themselves say they’re neither anarchism or communism, but their own thing.
Historically the biggest threat to anarchist revolution hasn’t been capitalism
Weird how you’ve been convinced the guys you literally need a revolution to displace is worth less of your energy than calling other people trying to do the same thing red fash.
P sure you mean unjust hierarchies, your mom telling you to go to bed and the anarchist copelected community representative or whatever telling you you’re not allowed to feed the bears in your backyard are examples of authority.
“Unjust Hierarchies” is Chomsky libshit take on anarchism.
We want horizontal organisation, not top-down authority. Don’t just tell me not to feed the bears, work with me, talk with me, educate me on why not to feed the bears.
So like when your neighbor in Anarchistan keeps feeding the bears, causing them to overrun the town, is the rest of the town just supposed to tolerate it? How is society supposed to work without any kind of authority?
Anarchistan? Is that implying the ‘stan’ prefix means some run-down place. That’s really bordering onto some racist shit, and I’m already straining my tolerance for you as is.
Believe it or not, most people are not going to want to invite bears into their backyard especially if aware of the dangers. If the town decides to make rules against it, they town can act on it and solve the problem. Anarchism is not do whatever you want, whenever you want. It’s horizontal organisation and mutual consent.
Wow yeah moders Russia! So modern! Soon modern toilet, indoor!!
And being trans is considered a mental illness there, but you gotta simp for your fav dictator I guess.
The USSR was a horrible aithoritatian dictatorship murdering millions of people, every western country got a better life than that hell hole lol. They even teamed up with the Nazis and started WW2, can’t make that shit up lol. So progressive.
Wow yeah moders Russia! So modern! Soon modern toilet, indoor!! And being trans is considered a mental illness there
My point is that modern and tsarist Russia are worse than the USSR; opposing the USSR is supporting the alternatives which were far worse.
every western country got a better life than that hell hole lo
Before the USSR they were peasants enduring regular famine, by the 50s they put a man in space. The 90s saw the largest drop in human life expectency outside of war or famine in modern history.
They even teamed up with the Nazis and started WW2
The USSR spent the lead up trying to ally with every single western country against nazi germany. Instead they all signed non-aggression pacts with nazi germany, and gave Nazi Germany and Poland Czechoslovakia. They even offered to invade Germany with 2 million men if the UK and France would join. Meanwhile the UK literally tried to send troops to invade the USSR during the winter war.
The capitalist powers intended Nazi Germany and Poland to deal with the greater threat, communism. The USSR signing their own non-aggressing pact is the only way they were able to draw the capitalists powers in against Nazi Germany.
I am saying capitalists feel fascism is a solution to communism, and their countries have always been happy to work with fascists to fight communists. Hence why fascist Portugal was a founding member of NATO, none of the capitalist countries dealt with Franco’s Spain, the dictatorships in South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, all of south America, etc.
Meanwhile, fascists know communists are their biggest enemy.
The west is full of nazis. after the USSR won WWII, the west welcomed the nazis in. The US and Canada gave a bunch of nazis a new home.
Had the USSR gone stateless, it would’ve fallen immediately. It was under attack from inception. I’m seeing a lot of uneducated nonsense here. Communists being attacked for reading theory. Very west-like.
This rationale holds for many nations under capitalism over the same time period.
It in no way justifies the superiority of the model of transition from fuedalism to state-controlled centralized economies to state-controlled capitalism present in the USSR / China
The USSR and China each brought hundreds of millions from barely subsisting to lifestyles comparable to the west within a single lifetime and made great progress on LGBT+ rights. Cuba has a higher life expectancy than the US despite the blockade and constant attempts at destabilization.
You shouldn’t compare the USSR to a fantasy utopia, you should compare it to the actual alternatives we’ve seen in reality, Tsarist and modern Russia.
Anarchist projects have yet to manage step 0: Resist capitalist encirclement for more than like 5 minutes so we don’t have any actually existing examples to study.
Let’s compare the USSR to itself, an authoritarian shithole that sent gay men to do hard labour.
The Zapatista have been going strong for 30 years.
Revolutionary Ukraine fell to Communist backstabbing.
Historically the biggest threat to anarchist revolution hasn’t been capitalism, it’s been red fash communists.
The Zapatistas themselves say they’re neither anarchism or communism, but their own thing.
Weird how you’ve been convinced the guys you literally need a revolution to displace is worth less of your energy than calling other people trying to do the same thing red fash.
Being your own thing and living by mutual consent is anarchist. Labels are ultimately irrelevant, actions matter.
We need a revolution to displace any authority. Authority will never wither away on its own.
P sure you mean unjust hierarchies, your mom telling you to go to bed and the
anarchist copelected community representative or whatever telling you you’re not allowed to feed the bears in your backyard are examples of authority.No, I mean any authority.
“Unjust Hierarchies” is Chomsky libshit take on anarchism.
We want horizontal organisation, not top-down authority. Don’t just tell me not to feed the bears, work with me, talk with me, educate me on why not to feed the bears.
So like when your neighbor in Anarchistan keeps feeding the bears, causing them to overrun the town, is the rest of the town just supposed to tolerate it? How is society supposed to work without any kind of authority?
Anarchistan? Is that implying the ‘stan’ prefix means some run-down place. That’s really bordering onto some racist shit, and I’m already straining my tolerance for you as is.
Believe it or not, most people are not going to want to invite bears into their backyard especially if aware of the dangers. If the town decides to make rules against it, they town can act on it and solve the problem. Anarchism is not do whatever you want, whenever you want. It’s horizontal organisation and mutual consent.
Anarchistan? Is that implying the ‘stan’ prefix means some run-down place.
-istan just means “land of”, I picked anarchistan because it had a ring to it and I was in Kazakhstan a couple months ago.
I picked that example because that happened when a bunch of libertarians decided to make their own town., though usually they dont get beyond 1 person scamming the rest.
What if the woman who wants to feed bears donuts stops consenting to the town rules? Do they have the authority to stop or remove her?
Idk if it’s smart to base a system pff the assumption that people always act in their own best interest, that’s how we got where we are in the west.
Wow yeah moders Russia! So modern! Soon modern toilet, indoor!!
And being trans is considered a mental illness there, but you gotta simp for your fav dictator I guess.
The USSR was a horrible aithoritatian dictatorship murdering millions of people, every western country got a better life than that hell hole lol. They even teamed up with the Nazis and started WW2, can’t make that shit up lol. So progressive.
My point is that modern and tsarist Russia are worse than the USSR; opposing the USSR is supporting the alternatives which were far worse.
Before the USSR they were peasants enduring regular famine, by the 50s they put a man in space. The 90s saw the largest drop in human life expectency outside of war or famine in modern history.
The USSR spent the lead up trying to ally with every single western country against nazi germany. Instead they all signed non-aggression pacts with nazi germany, and gave Nazi Germany and Poland Czechoslovakia. They even offered to invade Germany with 2 million men if the UK and France would join. Meanwhile the UK literally tried to send troops to invade the USSR during the winter war.
The capitalist powers intended Nazi Germany and Poland to deal with the greater threat, communism. The USSR signing their own non-aggressing pact is the only way they were able to draw the capitalists powers in against Nazi Germany.
Oh yeah, the west is worse than nazis, gotcha. Lol.
I am saying capitalists feel fascism is a solution to communism, and their countries have always been happy to work with fascists to fight communists. Hence why fascist Portugal was a founding member of NATO, none of the capitalist countries dealt with Franco’s Spain, the dictatorships in South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, all of south America, etc.
Meanwhile, fascists know communists are their biggest enemy.
The west is full of nazis. after the USSR won WWII, the west welcomed the nazis in. The US and Canada gave a bunch of nazis a new home.
Had the USSR gone stateless, it would’ve fallen immediately. It was under attack from inception. I’m seeing a lot of uneducated nonsense here. Communists being attacked for reading theory. Very west-like.
This rationale holds for many nations under capitalism over the same time period.
It in no way justifies the superiority of the model of transition from fuedalism to state-controlled centralized economies to state-controlled capitalism present in the USSR / China