The “not making decisions for me” part is a very Trump-like thing to say. Society only works by compromise.
The part where we all die, because a foreign army invades us, and no one is doom guy.
Part of anarchism that bothers me is that without central authority keeping track of everything my ability to find specific help I need would be solely dependent on whether I or any of my friends know person with that particular set of skills.
The part where I don’t get to make decisions for others. Not really looking forward to the clash that happens when the 2/3s consensus system of Johnsonville upriver comes into conflict with the majority consensus system of Tablesville downriver over the matter of what level of water treatment is necessary before dumping.
Don’t be too hard on the anarchists.
All of the problems anarchists are trying to solve are problems that communists will need to address over time as the state withers away.
A socialist state should be filled with experimental anarchist communes that are trying to solve the next puzzle by living it.
Maybe when they stop calling me a “red fascist”
I’ll be less hard on them if they agree to be less hard on every attempt to build actually existing socialism.
Also having a plan for all the factions to fit in “after the revolution” builds left-unity now, maybe we can finally move past arguing about the Spanish civil war
The people who bring up the Spanish civil war as a reason to “never trust a tankie” are beyond help in my opinion. The idea that all “tankies” are the same is ridiculous, that a revolution in an entirely different time and place with entirely different material conditions will somehow always turn out exactly the same, with them getting stabbed in the back by tankies is just absurd. Also has a lot of influence from “Judeo-Bolshevism” with this idea that the “authoritarian communists” are always going to stab people in the back because it is their “nature” or something.
They just want their morally pure team to be the good guys and the “tankies” the designated bad guys. They aren’t anarchists because they actually believe there will be an “after the revolution” they’re just libs who wear a t-shirt with a
symbol on it. They aren’t interested in learning about history or about improving the future, they’re only concerned with feeling good about themselves. And in ten years, those same “tankies” they despise (which often includes actual anarchists doing actual work to help people) will still be working at furthering their causes, while these kind of pseudo-anarchists, or “anarkiddies” will have see anarchism and leftism in general as “just a phase” and will just be bog standard libs, if not full-on fascists.
(The first part of your point is completely correct, we don’t need to fight now nor after a revolution, we can always work together, even if we have different end goals, both groups want a better world for everyone, and giving people more options for how they think that looks is a good thing, not a bad thing.)
To be fair, when Marxists speak of the withering of the state, we don’t mean the abolition of all hierarchy. Marxism does not wither into anarchism.