Left Unity is important. MLs who call anarchists 'anarkiddies' and make literally a distorted mockery of anarchism while not understanding some of ML's state's historical failures; and Anarchists who call MLs 'tankies' and do not seem to grasp historical conditions, anti-imperialism, are dumb as hell. What annoys me the most is that this benefits NO ONE. The left is crippled as is. I understand Lenin's argument that giving way to completely different praxis inside the Party might kill it, but that doesn't hold true in today's society, it did in his society, in his conditions, and only he was able to materialise all that. There's no need to try and defend everything the USSR and China did, some of the things were mistakes, and they know it, and they are correcting them (China, Vietnam); but there's also no need to villify the USSR and China, especially not with fucking bourgeois propaganda! One has to be open to other left ideas and just try and build bridges. The revolution in today's world is about gaining the support of the people, and in gaining more people to support the cause, even if it's vague.
Left Unity is important. MLs who call anarchists 'anarkiddies' and make literally a distorted mockery of anarchism while not understanding some of ML's state's historical failures; and Anarchists who call MLs 'tankies' and do not seem to grasp historical conditions, anti-imperialism, are dumb as hell. What annoys me the most is that this benefits NO ONE. The left is crippled as is. I understand Lenin's argument that giving way to completely different praxis inside the Party might kill it, but that doesn't hold true in today's society, it did in his society, in his conditions, and only he was able to materialise all that. There's no need to try and defend everything the USSR and China did, some of the things were mistakes, and they know it, and they are correcting them (China, Vietnam); but there's also no need to villify the USSR and China, especially not with fucking bourgeois propaganda! One has to be open to other left ideas and just try and build bridges. The revolution in today's world is about gaining the support of the people, and in gaining more people to support the cause, even if it's vague.