Their lives are blissful… free from the burden of self doubt.

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    If all you care about is winning, your best odds are siding with the American imperialists.

    You’re the worst historian I’ve ever heard of.

    It isn’t stable. It hasn’t produced a long track record of success.

    A “historian” unfamiliar with the Zapatistas, an anarchist group with over 300,000 people living under it, remaining stable in a very unstable environment for decades.

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      Zapatistas always rejected the anarchist label to my knowledge. Extremely cool and good, and I am glad anarchists take so much inspiration from it…but that movement doesn’t/didn’t spring from the European political theory of anarchism the way that the anarchist elements of the Paris commune or Spanish civil war did!

      It’s definitely a counter example to a claim I don’t think that guy was making (he didn’t say “the only anticapitalist projects with longevity are Marxist Leninist ones” ).

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        Zapatistas always rejected the anarchist label to my knowledge.

        They do the classic anarchist thing of being like, “we don’t need to put a label on it, we are who we are and do what we do”, despite clearly and evidently being organized around anarchist principles.

        It’s definitely a counter example to a claim I don’t think that guy was making

        He literally claimed that trusting marxist-leninist leaders would be “safer” than organizing by anarchist principles.

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      You’re the worst historian I’ve ever heard of.

      The Zapatistas aren’t running Mexico. They’re barely even running their own little corner of Mexico