Finally someone coming in with an honest hot take

this is very helpful thank you!

…how bad would it be if i actually tried this. not the hammer part but now i really wanna know what happens if i open port forward to 22.

very good point. thank you m’lord.

Okay. Let me look up how to open this portal 22 you speak of.

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Theres this author called Wayne Price that I like. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/wayne-price-what-is-anarchist-communism. Also for a take on the vanguard party sorta that i like. it kind of gets outlined here and in other stuff by the Invisible Committee [https://archive.org/details/ToOurFriendsByTheInvisibleCommittee]

maybe youre right! we all don’t really know until it happens yeah? My lived experience has found that local grassroots community based collectives that try and veer against anti authoritarian stances has brought me the most joy and have been the most formative to me. I have been very in awe of the horizontal based mutual aid networks ive been apart of or my friends have. i have seen a lot less beauty when things have become more top down. Maybe there are opportunities for a natural vanguard party! I dig a lot of Tiqqun stuff that is sort of like that. Ultimately though, i still am thinking about the here and now, and how my values can inform how i move about the world. For me anti authoritarianism and anti capitalism is the best fit for me. Whether things turn out to be a vanguard party or not.

the reason i’m hesistent to go this far with labels is that some of these particularities come down to us (using “us” broadly) for a hypothetical situation of when the rev comes. Getting too in the weeds nitpicking our little image of what that looks like can get boring to me. So i tend to focus more on what i have politically in common with people on an everyday material level.

thanks! I think i understand and have read enough. I’m probably discrediting how much i know. I’m currently getting my doctorate and a lot of my work involves critical cultural/ political economic theory. The basic division comes in the fact that i don’t feel an affinity with the notion of the vanguard party and want more decentralization and communalism. Which is why i veer towards ‘anarcho-communism’ if you were going to put a label on it.

That’s a good question! I wouldn’t say I depart from marxism insofar as I don’t feel an affinity with more state based communism (stalinism, Leninism, etc). As for marxism the only critique I can think of is how classic marxism lended to be historically and economically deterministic that didn’t account for things like gender and such. Although as time has gone on and my dismay for identity politics has made me feel more economically deterministic than before. I also should say that there’s only so much that I even know what I’m talking about. I’ve taken several courses in critical theory and marxism in undergrad and grad skill and I still only comprehend it on a basic level.

At the end of the day I just really care about being a good caring humble person and aligning myself with anti authoritarian, anticapitalist, communal based values. If you also care about those things it probably doesnt matter what you call yourself, were probably on the same boat :)

i’m content being a marxist informed anarchist :)

Hey I’m not a communist !

Not my experience

I feel for you and I hope you can figure out a way to work on it! Therapy and pushing myself to socialize even when I don’t want to has helped me.

League Of Legends without a doubt

Read books, go to therapy,

Reject defensiveness and self righteousness. Embrace humility and human connection.

I sort of get it! I’m trying to at least. Thank you for sharing :)

Can someone give me a “explain to me like I’m five” to the debate here? I’d like to learn 😀