That's a low hanging fruit.

Idk but it's a pretty funny comment

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.

you will never find anarchists outside of twitter

Everybody wants to be a part of a socialist state, but nobody wants to build a socialist state.

That's the end of this discussion. Like what else can one say? This has been talked to death for decades at this point, can we stop flinging shit at each other and wasting time doing measuring contests?

Our brains typically like following patterns, the more you do something the harder it is to stop doing it. It's like the quote attributed to Lenin: "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." You have to keep re-examining your own behaviors constantly or it's so easy to fall into a conditioning chamber, of your own making.

http://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/

I'm not an anarchist, but this is plainly wrong, and a poor response even if it applies to twitter anarchists. There's plenty to say here about how anti-imperialists should view imperfect leaders in states being actively targeted by imperialists. Ham-handed leftist infighting misses the mark.

Building the revolutionary vanguard by flailing our fists around a room of only other strains of leftists. Thanks Bad Empanada! Very cool!