You’ll see anarchists praising Rosa Luxemburg, who if they had actually read her writings – they would see that she was very clearly one of the “authoritarian” socialists that they rail against so much.
You see them praise the Black Panthers, who were supported financially by the DPRK and aligned themselves with the Juche ideology of Kim Il Sung.
They even praise Thomas Sankara, who purged anarchists and arrested syndicalists.
If these people had succeeded, i have no doubt in my mind that anarchists would call them “tankies,” they would call their experiments “capitalism with a red flag.” And I also have no doubt in my mind that if the October Revolution, Chinese Revolution had been crushed, they would hail Lenin and Mao as proletarian heroes.
Yeah, Anarchists don’t seem to actually want to succeed in anything. They just want to perpetually feel superior about their morals as well as comfortable that nothing will ever change. They want to be cool, contrarian good guys, imagining a world that will only ever exist in books and stories.
That’s why my anarchist phase was short-lived. I was reading about anarchism and I found out that many of them don’t even expect that the revolution will succeed. It’s just a desperate moral opposition to the status quo without any serious intention to change the material reality.
Not a great strategy to make the world a better place lol
I’m very much the same. Had a short anarchist phase, don’t entirely disagree with a lot of the worldview, but feel the situation is too desperate to rely on fantastical situations when there’s already existing theory on how to fix the world.