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submitted 2 weeks ago by Tolc@lemmy.world to c/communism@lemmy.ml

I have noticed that largely most anarchists online are from the first world and that anarchism is very popular than communism in western countries, i.e. its become overtly a first world white people ideology.

While marxism leninism is popular in the third world, with large marxist leninist parties and non existing anarchist forces. What do you think about this?

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[-] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

Most anarchists are not online, or at least not active online. There's an inherent defiance in anarchist circles against imperial / extractive technologies like computers, which is less common in leninist circles where cybernetics has been assimilated (eg. under Allende, or in science fiction like Asimov). To be fair, i have met quite a few leninists who were profoundly techno-critical and did not wander on online forums.

So there's already this biased sample explaining things a little. But "non existing anarchist forces" in the 3rd world is a stretch due to your information bubbles. Can't say they're exactly thriving and on the verge of destroying the State, but there's strong anarchist communities in Sudan, Chile, Syria, Chiapas, Indonesia…

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Chiapas

Didn't the Zapatistas disavow anarchism or otherwise deny they were anarchists or was that just hearsay?

[-] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not entirely correct. The zapatista movement is not an anarchist movement, nor is it a marxist movement (it's a zapatista movement). But to say they « disavow » anarchism is a stretch. See also A zapatista response to « The EZLN is not anarchist »: « There are anarchists in our midst, just as there are Catholics and Communists and followers of Santeria. We are Indians in the countryside and workers in the city. We are politicians in office and homeless children on the street. We are gay and straight, male and female, wealthy and poor. What we all have in common is a love for our families and our homelands. What we all have in common is a desire to make things better for ourselves and our country. None of this can be accomplished if we are to build walls of words and abstract ideas around ourselves. »

Still, there are a lot of anarchists in Mexico, not just Chiapas. But in Chiapas, too.

[-] Tolc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sudan, Chile, Syria, Chiapas, Indonesia

One thing common among most of these examples is that right wing forces carried mass genocide of communists in these countries.

[-] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's technically correct. However, you seem to imply that repression against « communists » is not repression against « anarchists ». It definitely is. One could argue there's repression against anarchists without repression against communists (though i would say that's wrong because many of the deported/executed « leftists » under Lenin were not anarchists) but i've never heard a single make the opposite argument.

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