I see what you are saying, but we should not refer to communists as tankies. Instead of alienating others, we should try to win them over.
Hearts and minds.
one up man ship and gotcha type discourse won’t help our cause. We want people to turn to anarchism and for that we need to convince though rational arguments.
We should also appeal to people’s emotions.
We should speak to their sense of freedom and individuality. We should show them how we are all wage-slaves and that once we abolish property all the people who have been poor will over night be rich. All of a sudden the bread that rotted off limits can now be eaten by those who were condemned to look at it from afar before.
The thing is, anarchists and MLs tend to agree pretty much all the criticism of the current system.
We, however, disagree greatly on how to progress to the next system. And this is where our disagreements become practical and not easily solvable by polite arguments.
communists and anarchists agree in everything but communists want to get to stateless communism by having a state-capitalist dictatorship first. Anarchists believe that once you give away your power you never get it back, and thus we hold on to our power throughout the revolution.
I see what you are saying, but we should not refer to communists as tankies. Instead of alienating others, we should try to win them over.
Hearts and minds.
one up man ship and gotcha type discourse won’t help our cause. We want people to turn to anarchism and for that we need to convince though rational arguments.
We should also appeal to people’s emotions.
We should speak to their sense of freedom and individuality. We should show them how we are all wage-slaves and that once we abolish property all the people who have been poor will over night be rich. All of a sudden the bread that rotted off limits can now be eaten by those who were condemned to look at it from afar before.
The thing is, anarchists and MLs tend to agree pretty much all the criticism of the current system.
We, however, disagree greatly on how to progress to the next system. And this is where our disagreements become practical and not easily solvable by polite arguments.
communists and anarchists agree in everything but communists want to get to stateless communism by having a state-capitalist dictatorship first. Anarchists believe that once you give away your power you never get it back, and thus we hold on to our power throughout the revolution.