I've had comrades who were former MLs who left their party and joined anarchists' groups too. It 100% cuts both ways. I'm not firmly pro or anti-state, but I am firmly a police/prison/compulsory schooling abolitionist, so I tend to organize with anarchists and feminists rather than Leninists.
It's all about what groups work best in your area. In the end, especially groups in the imperial core, we're all gonna end up in the same places. The important thing is to not claw each other's eyes out when that happens. None of these parties or groups are representative of the masses yet. It's important to be willing to go with the flow and allow the mass sentiment to shape your revolutionary methods. Especially now when labor is so disorganized and apathetic.
Lenin works well when you already have organized labor and even better when half the military is just ready to defect to fight alongside you. Anarchism seems to get better results under complete capitalist encirclement though. Probably because it's something most people can look at for 5 minutes and be like "yo, I totally get that" without having to understand the power dynamics of the bourgeoisie and shit (not that Anarchism is antithetical to that, just that it's a lot more intuitive from early on because of the whole non-hierarchical thing).
I've had comrades who were former MLs who left their party and joined anarchists' groups too. It 100% cuts both ways. I'm not firmly pro or anti-state, but I am firmly a police/prison/compulsory schooling abolitionist, so I tend to organize with anarchists and feminists rather than Leninists.
It's all about what groups work best in your area. In the end, especially groups in the imperial core, we're all gonna end up in the same places. The important thing is to not claw each other's eyes out when that happens. None of these parties or groups are representative of the masses yet. It's important to be willing to go with the flow and allow the mass sentiment to shape your revolutionary methods. Especially now when labor is so disorganized and apathetic.
Lenin works well when you already have organized labor and even better when half the military is just ready to defect to fight alongside you. Anarchism seems to get better results under complete capitalist encirclement though. Probably because it's something most people can look at for 5 minutes and be like "yo, I totally get that" without having to understand the power dynamics of the bourgeoisie and shit (not that Anarchism is antithetical to that, just that it's a lot more intuitive from early on because of the whole non-hierarchical thing).