The Deprogram

It's funny in that internet niche knowledge of beefs kind of way, but I'm not sure how much it elucidates about political tendencies and schools of thought. MLs criticize anarchism not because it "hasn't done anything", but because both the design of it and historical fact demonstrates its inability to build a vanguard and defend against the reaction on any kind of broad scale, and because once you start getting into the level of organization needed to transition broadly from one system to another, you end up with what is essentially a state project, whether you're calling it one or not.

I get the impression from how some rarer anarchists talk that there are some nuances to what they believe in that complicate it a bit beyond this framing of it. But nothing I've seen that justifies a different framework for dealing with an imperialist world. I just know that if we look at large scale projects that have succeeded in dramatically increasing quality of life and transitioning away from heavily exploitative systems while weathering the siege of imperialism and reaction, we are invariably looking at socialist states led by a communist vanguard party; not projects that are calling themselves anarchist.