For me, the ultimate argument against anarchism is to define what a state is. A state is a weapon, an organized form of violence, that one class uses to oppress another. That's from Lenin, but most anarchists should agree, right? So anything remotely organized, that anarchists or anyone else does to defend after a revolution against reaction, fascism and imperialism is already a state by definition. They might call it the grassroots self defense committees or lose federation of independent people's militias or whatever. But if it works to suppress fascism, then it fullfils the role of oppressing classes in the interest of other classes and that's a state.
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Yes, also you don't have to go far back at all to find ancestors who just murdered people and stole their land and stuff.
Thanks! I quickly found a PDF.
Which keywords can I search for to find out more about all those things? I tried "gdr poison attempt" for example, but couldn't find anything. Links would be great too, but don't want to trouble anyone.
The whites need the others to do all the hard work. Can't have a fascist settler colonial project without exploiting the natives. The ones that haven't been murdered in the genocide yet, of course.
When war comes to Europe/the West, it's coming home. Racists who react like that are only able to feel empathy with other white people
Why is it yellow though?
China, however, has taken a more cautious, nuanced approach. Beijing sees little advantage in supporting one presidential candidate over the other, intelligence analysts say. Instead, China’s disinformation efforts focus on campaign issues particularly important to Beijing
Oh no if we can trust unnamed "intelligence analysts", you know, probably the same people who manufactured russiagate, spend billions on foreign desinformation campaigns and are famous for toppling democratically elected officials around the world, then China is accused of meddling in the elections! Allegedly, they do it by providing, well... impartial and relevant information without favoring any candidate. But they cunningly limit their evil public relations campaign to issues pertaining to their own country, which is... bad for some reason.
And even more wicked: by pretending to be Americans, they evade the natural American defense mechanism against r̶e̶a̶s̶o̶n̶ outside influence: racism. How will we know to ignore their logic and their pleas for peace and cooperation, if we don't know their skin color?! Heavens! If this is allowed to continue, the rampant preparations for a nuclear apocalypse inducing war against China might continue to accelerate in a somewhat less feverish frenzy! Better crank internet cencorship up to eleven stat, that's the only way to protect democracy. /s
Okay I'll start. I did a quick search and found this one:
To criticize the people's shortcomings is necessary, . . . but in doing so we must truly take the stand of the people and speak out of whole-hearted eagerness to protect and educate them. To treat comrades like enemies is to go over to the stand of the enemy.
Feudalism doesn't necessitate endless growth on a finite planet. It had other terrible contradictions, which were solved by capitalism by introducing new contradictions wich lead to crisis faster, more often and with more devastating effects.Of course, I wouldn't want to go back to having Lords own all the land, but wait, we still have those, they're called landlords.
Okay, good point, thanks