• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    You responded to people having positive opinions about Che Guevara with some “we need less authoritarianism, not more” style comments.

    But what was Cuba to do with the US right next door? How would they be able to defend their revolution by immediately dissolving the state? Is the situation currently in Cuba ideal, and was it ideal in the past? Of course not, but they made certain decisions for a reason. Usually a protectionist one that was a product of its time. Look at how many times the CIA tried to kill Castro for example. How can the state instantly be dismantled when under such a siege?

    Even then it’s can easily be argued that your average Cuban experiences less “authoritarianism” post revolution, even with all the struggles in the country.

    All I know is that Cuba, even when under seige, helped my country, South Africa, to fight apartheid, by sending their army to fight in the border wars. No one else did such. They may be a state at the end of the day, with the downsides all states have, but what they have achieved must be acknowledged and respected. A greater life expectancy than the US. Fighting injustice. An inclusive family code, making up for mistakes of the past.

    From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of the vicious imperialist-orchestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gain made in the Cuban Revolution

    • Nelson Mandela
  • I read the title assuming OP must mean that the images featured in the Dunk Tank, the stuff we put there to point and laugh at, was too much for OP to handle. And I could relate. Sometimes my blood is already boiled enough and I can’t take reading any more.

    But no. It turns out that OP is upset and malding because of the people here commenting on the threads in the Dunk Tank. :picard:

      • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        there’s a history of anarchists proudly failing and dying because of sectarianism. because authoritarianism and hierarchies are always bad to the sectarians. good luck not using hierarchies on a battlefield of any kind against an even semi modern army. OP is probably 18 years old and doesnt want to listen to his mom.

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          There’s a strong objective trend of every single ideology failing to gain ground because of sectarianism. Even Lenin in what is to be done advocated against pluralism amongst comrades but in the writing advocated working w every bloc that had an interest against the tsar.

          And particularly if the conditions within ur country are not imminently revolutionary there is absolutely no use for sectarianism as a principle that isn’t in practice just telling people to fuck off for being actively detrimental.

    • If you mean it’s a much better echo chamber for anarcho-bidenists, then yes, it is. There are lots of open and happy anarchists here because this site actually cares about left unity and will ban sectarianism. Raddle is anti-left unity and bans anyone who hints at being of a tendency the creator doesn’t like. As for being “very active” :che-laugh: that place has been a ghost town for years. As opposed to hexbear that’s had consistently high engagement since it started.

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        1 year ago

        lol look at the fucking Makhnovists. You’ll beat Stalin one day! Just keep at writing your shitty posts from exile and alienating the more useful leftists around you. Just one more article and you might see victory!

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          My view of Makhnov got much more complicated once I looked into the facts.

          For example forcing people with weapons to fight in an army was something he organized. Is that anarchist? If the army is needed in a fight against white or Nazi terror it sure is legitimate and that was one of the reasons MLs did it in the early years of the Soviet Union, too.

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            There’s a story I always talk about that I think is the perfect encapsulation of his being a loser:

            In June 1926, during a meal with Alexander Berkman and May Picqueray in a Russian restaurant, Makhno met with the Ukrainian Jewish anarchist Sholem Schwarzbard, who went pale upon seeing the [fascist] Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon Petliura walk into the room. Schwarzbard immediately informed the Batko of his intentions to assassinate Petliura, in revenge for the pogroms carried out in the Ukrainian People’s Republic, during which some of his family members had been killed. Makhno attempted to dissuade him but the deed was carried out anyway, with Schwarzbard’s subsequent trial bringing to light a trove of documentary evidence on the pogroms in Ukraine, exonerating the assassin.

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            he was kinda cool in some ways but when things got tough his project too quickly resorted to some level of chaotic vanguardism and violence to pull through and manage stuff. Scale that up to the complexity and issues the USSR project had to deal with and you can quikly see he was far from a “better alternative than the bolsheviks that they crushed”