I think we need some sort of new synthesis. We need to discard the tendencies of old and create our own theory that is founded in the material conditions of the present. That said I feel like anarchism is an evergreen term for the goal we all seek. That is a classless stateless society. Should we not then realign around that label? If communism has been so poisoned in western spaces shouldn't we maneuver around that and use whatever labels and words we have at our disposal to advance our goals?
I don't think it's that simple, and anarchists VS reds today are still a valid philosophical distinction. The US isn't the whole world either, this distinction has importance in other countries e.g Vietnam. But speaking to the US specifically, there's no reason these two groups can't unite.
I think we need some sort of new synthesis. We need to discard the tendencies of old and create our own theory that is founded in the material conditions of the present. That said I feel like anarchism is an evergreen term for the goal we all seek. That is a classless stateless society. Should we not then realign around that label? If communism has been so poisoned in western spaces shouldn't we maneuver around that and use whatever labels and words we have at our disposal to advance our goals?
I think all these old terms have a lot of baggage
I don't think it's that simple, and anarchists VS reds today are still a valid philosophical distinction. The US isn't the whole world either, this distinction has importance in other countries e.g Vietnam. But speaking to the US specifically, there's no reason these two groups can't unite.
You're definitely right, I was pretty drunk and just typing stream of consciousness at the point yesterday.