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I disliked the anarchism erasure of portraying the Spanish civil war as a "communist party" cause (the authoritarian vanguardist type of communism that the movi
by wahnfrieden 3y ago
I disliked the anarchism erasure of portraying the Spanish civil war as a "communist party" cause (the authoritarian vanguardist type of communism that the movie focused on)
- vouwfietsman 3y agoGood point, was it understood in the US as anarchism at the time, though?
- throwawaymaths 3y agoCommunism is an anarchist philosophy, at it's root. If it seems a bit weird because (IIRC) this historical dialectic goes: - bourgeois revolution - Workers revolution - Bigger state - Even bigger state - Underpants gnomes - Anarchist utopia Only half joking... this is what turn of the last century communists believed.
- warkdarrior 3y agoAs the saying goes, if everyone is part of the state, nobody is part of the state. At some scale, human organizations start to break down.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoanarchists (well maybe except for insurrectionist anarchists) believe in communism as an outcome, but they most definitely do not agree with vanguardism as a means of achieving it. vanguardism is just a kind of elitist authoritarianism.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoI would phrase it this way: (non-communist) anarchists believe in communal living as an outcome Aware that this isn't historically accurate terminology but very few people will appreciate the nuances your definitions requires, as the modern meanings have diverged