The Nazis couldn’t have done the holocaust without IBM, yeah.

I dont agree that the situation supports your train of logic, and I think you’re mischaracterising their comment. For example, there is nothing that includes “why should we even live?” in their comment

How did you transmute a critique of capitalism into a critique of life?

Please read this article from a mainstream Jewish holocaust historian, equating the USSR with nazis is problematic.

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

Hey, just cause I disagree with their analysis doesn’t mean I haven’t read it.

For example, forming a secret vanguard party isn’t the way to anarchism, and the Kronstadt rebellion wasn’t the pinnacle of revolution, even though the Soviets fucked up their response to it.

And you would know what I’m referring to if you’ve read some of their main works.

But hey… bring it on.

It is a self dunk to get combative when someone asks you what books you’ve read on a subject you’re opining about

Okay so how much did you actually study the Spanish civil war because this comes off as really ignorant? Like, what books have you read on the subject that have led you to the conclusion that Stalin was controlling all of the Spanish Republicans except for the anarchists? You seem to deify Stalin much more than me, who generally considers him a very flawed leader who was a better revolutionary, but doesn’t consider him some octopus with his tentacles in literally everything.

Yes, the Spanish anarchists were unsuccessful because Stalin, and not because they refused to be integrated with the popular front(which even the fucking liberals joined), including militarily until the war was already well lost, which made coordinated actions against the fascists with the popular front impossible

The lessons of the Spanish civil war dont reflect well on the anarchist movement there.

They absolutely did, their inability to coordinate and make compromises during wartime absolutely led to their failures as revolutions.

I hate it when threads like this make me have to repeatedly post the mainstream Jewish holocaust historian “stop conflating fascism and communism” article

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

As someone who’s read Marx and lenin, and Bakunin and Goldman… not to mention kroptikin(god damn that guy bullshat his way through conquest of bread)

The anarchists always decry practical steps that are needed for the transition, but they have a poverty of ideas when it comes to propose better alternative solutions to the problems faced by actual revolutions. And frankly, reading their literature I understand why. They’re still hung up on ideas and values and not material analysis much more than MLs. They’re still trapped within liberal hegemonic thought though they are against liberal capitalism.