Do you blame communism for this? It took the party decades to build support for the most recent constitutional reform, and this one only passed with a 2/3 majority.

I described a scenario where ordinarily we would use someone with a position of authority to deal with a problem. I asked you what the anarchist solution is.

All you’ve done is accuse me of bad faith and tell me I’m not using definitions correctly without telling me what the correct one would be in these contexts or telling me literally anything about anarchy. Oh and linked a paper where a person says they don’t believe children should be required to go to school and that Industrial civilization is simply unfit to nurture human life and then told me I must be misunderstanding what is meant by “industrial civilization”.

I am trying my best here, but you’re not giving me much to work with.

You didn’t answer my question, but the thing you linked me suggests you don’t think industrialized civilization should exist?

I’m asking these open ended questions to give you an opportunity to explain what authority means within an anarchist context and how a community can deal with someone doing something that is potentially harmful to the rest of the community.

score a point.

If someone thinks anarchists complaining about communists instead of engaging with the systems that actually have power is silly, how do you think they’d feel about the reverse?

Bouncebacktolifecomics.

IDK why my copy had its watermark removed, but I fixed it.

the exodus was triggered by a sharp downturn in the Cuban economy

Given that gay sex was decriminalized in 1979, this seems questionable given that Fidel has personally apologized and takes full responsibility. I haven’t looked up if he’s done anything to compensate the victims tho.

Not a good look

Good thing we’re not in a chud space.

I know libertarians are not anarchists, I am using their situation to ask how your type of anarchists would deal with it differently.

I am saying capitalists feel fascism is a solution to communism, and their countries have always been happy to work with fascists to fight communists. Hence why fascist Portugal was a founding member of NATO, none of the capitalist countries dealt with Franco’s Spain, the dictatorships in South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, all of south America, etc.

Meanwhile, fascists know communists are their biggest enemy.

Anarchistan? Is that implying the ‘stan’ prefix means some run-down place.

-istan just means “land of”, I picked anarchistan because it had a ring to it and I was in Kazakhstan a couple months ago.

Believe it or not, most people are not going to want to invite bears into their backyard especially if aware of the dangers.

I picked that example because that happened when a bunch of libertarians decided to make their own town., though usually they dont get beyond 1 person scamming the rest.

What if the woman who wants to feed bears donuts stops consenting to the town rules? Do they have the authority to stop or remove her?

So like when your neighbor in Anarchistan keeps feeding the bears, causing them to overrun the town, is the rest of the town just supposed to tolerate it? How is society supposed to work without any kind of authority?

In the 50s? Those were gusanos fleeing because their slaves revolted.

In the 90s? They were fleeing because there was a famine after the USSR collapsed and the US continued their embargo.

Between the 50s and 90s? It’d be kinda funny to flee to a place that had worse anti-gay laws.

Correct? Do you think they don’t believe their struggle was worth it so nobody else has to face the same thing?

any authority

P sure you mean unjust hierarchies, your mom telling you to go to bed and the anarchist copelected community representative or whatever telling you you’re not allowed to feed the bears in your backyard are examples of authority.

Wow yeah moders Russia! So modern! Soon modern toilet, indoor!! And being trans is considered a mental illness there

My point is that modern and tsarist Russia are worse than the USSR; opposing the USSR is supporting the alternatives which were far worse.

every western country got a better life than that hell hole lo

Before the USSR they were peasants enduring regular famine, by the 50s they put a man in space. The 90s saw the largest drop in human life expectency outside of war or famine in modern history.

They even teamed up with the Nazis and started WW2

The USSR spent the lead up trying to ally with every single western country against nazi germany. Instead they all signed non-aggression pacts with nazi germany, and gave Nazi Germany and Poland Czechoslovakia. They even offered to invade Germany with 2 million men if the UK and France would join. Meanwhile the UK literally tried to send troops to invade the USSR during the winter war.

The capitalist powers intended Nazi Germany and Poland to deal with the greater threat, communism. The USSR signing their own non-aggressing pact is the only way they were able to draw the capitalists powers in against Nazi Germany.

Zapatista

The Zapatistas themselves say they’re neither anarchism or communism, but their own thing.

Historically the biggest threat to anarchist revolution hasn’t been capitalism

Weird how you’ve been convinced the guys you literally need a revolution to displace is worth less of your energy than calling other people trying to do the same thing red fash.

The USSR and China each brought hundreds of millions from barely subsisting to lifestyles comparable to the west within a single lifetime and made great progress on LGBT+ rights. Cuba has a higher life expectancy than the US despite the blockade and constant attempts at destabilization.

You shouldn’t compare the USSR to a fantasy utopia, you should compare it to the actual alternatives we’ve seen in reality, Tsarist and modern Russia.

Anarchist projects have yet to manage step 0: Resist capitalist encirclement for more than like 5 minutes so we don’t have any actually existing examples to study.

It’s a bit weird to compare the USSR to the west at a time when the west literally imprisoned and/or sterilized gay people.

As far as the LGBT+ struggle in China goes, conditions simply aren’t the sort that create radicals; you don’t get stonewall and eventually LGBT+ protections if cops aren’t actively harassing LGBT+ people. Oppression takes different vectors and they have a different path forward.

Cuba has LGBT+ rights enshrined in their constitution.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book