• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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    10 days ago

    Can you show me anywhere in the world where anarchism is as strongly represented in labor movements as it was in Spain during the 1930s?

    Can you show me anywhere in the world where Liberal Capitalist Democracy was strongly represented in 1400s? See how absurd this statement is?

    So what should it be then? A vanguard in everything but name?

    The opposite. Improving the lives of people practicing it in the here and now through anarchist praxis. People can practice direct action for mutual aid right now.

    I’d love to… but where is it?

    Prefiguration is a theory of praxis

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      10 days ago

      See how absurd this statement is?

      Liberalism is literally the ideology of the status quo now.

      Is it absurd to point that out, too?

      Prefiguration is a theory of praxis

      Soooo… the failure of anarchism to actually preconfigure anything since the end of WW2 in the face of massive liberal counter-insurgency is perhaps tied to anarchist’s theories about preconfiguration not being remotely good enough - if they even exist at all?

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        Liberalism is literally the ideology of the status quo now.

        Is it absurd to point that out, too?

        What’s absurd is to claim that a radical socioeconomic reconfiguration can’t happen because it hasn’t happened yet.

        Soooo… the failure of anarchism to actually preconfigure anything since the end of WW2 in the face of massive liberal counter-insurgency is perhaps tied to anarchist’s theories about preconfiguration not being remotely good enough - if they even exist at all?

        Anarchist prefigure things all the time. Mutual Banks, Cooperatives, Anarcho-syndicalist unions, food banks, soup kitchens and so much more. Don’t know what the fuck you’re on about.