When I was homeless and traveling the country, I ate meals from food not bombs more times than I met self described MLs. Though my local PSL feeds homeless people and does other praxis. I can definitely see how someone could come to that conclusion. We definitely need to be more visible in our communities. I think it’s just hard when the anti communist propaganda machine has been well oiled for so long.. coming out and saying your a Marxist to everyone you talk politics with, in a lot of the USA could mean alienating yourself in an already alienated population. Hell, it could mean losing your job. And for some reason I don’t think anarchists have the same amount of hatred.
I mean anarchists have recently gotten a lot of negative attention, but what little negative attention they got in the past read overshadowed by anarchism being cool.
I mean, look at me. I'm a self described libertarian socialist, but if I had been a marxist leninist do you think you would have people calling me the most important intellectual in America.
Idk maybe I’m full of shit but I haven’t personally experienced people give as much shit to anarchists as they do to communists. At least not in real life, taking all online conversations out of the mix. I mean to the average working American an anarchist is exactly like that, someone that just wants to throw bricks through windows and light buildings on fire. They only know what the media has told them. And the media has told them that Communists killed more people than Hitler.
No I get what you’re saying. I think you’re right, I don’t think they organize as much as anarchists in the US and they definitely don’t advertise as much either. Even my local PSL calls themselves a “liberation center.” Everyone I’ve met subscribes to some sort of communism, but the chapter as a whole barely calls themselves socialist.
Also judging by the amount of Twitter screenshots, Reddit takes, and all around culture of this place... I think the majority of people who frequent this website are what I personally would consider “terminally online”. So I’d say that would definitely skew a persons viewpoint.
When I was homeless and traveling the country, I ate meals from food not bombs more times than I met self described MLs. Though my local PSL feeds homeless people and does other praxis. I can definitely see how someone could come to that conclusion. We definitely need to be more visible in our communities. I think it’s just hard when the anti communist propaganda machine has been well oiled for so long.. coming out and saying your a Marxist to everyone you talk politics with, in a lot of the USA could mean alienating yourself in an already alienated population. Hell, it could mean losing your job. And for some reason I don’t think anarchists have the same amount of hatred.
"White Anarchists caused the George Floyd riots" over and over for 3 months last year. Do you live under a rock?
The antifa hate us still fairly new.
What do you mean?
I mean anarchists have recently gotten a lot of negative attention, but what little negative attention they got in the past read overshadowed by anarchism being cool.
I mean, look at me. I'm a self described libertarian socialist, but if I had been a marxist leninist do you think you would have people calling me the most important intellectual in America.
Idk maybe I’m full of shit but I haven’t personally experienced people give as much shit to anarchists as they do to communists. At least not in real life, taking all online conversations out of the mix. I mean to the average working American an anarchist is exactly like that, someone that just wants to throw bricks through windows and light buildings on fire. They only know what the media has told them. And the media has told them that Communists killed more people than Hitler.
IDK should we ask the arbiter of all things truth, Reddit?
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No I get what you’re saying. I think you’re right, I don’t think they organize as much as anarchists in the US and they definitely don’t advertise as much either. Even my local PSL calls themselves a “liberation center.” Everyone I’ve met subscribes to some sort of communism, but the chapter as a whole barely calls themselves socialist. Also judging by the amount of Twitter screenshots, Reddit takes, and all around culture of this place... I think the majority of people who frequent this website are what I personally would consider “terminally online”. So I’d say that would definitely skew a persons viewpoint.
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