Noob Q: why is it always anarchist vs authoritarian? Surely there's a middle ground?

Why put the Black Panthers in here? 🤨

The Black Panther platform, as I understand it, was:

• We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.
• We want full employment for our people.
• We want an end to the robbery by the Capitalists of our Black Community.
• We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
• We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.
• We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
• We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.
• We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.
• We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
• We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.

The Juche platform is:

• We must give our all in the struggle to unify the entire society with the revolutionary ideology of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung.
• We must honor the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung with all our loyalty.
• We must make absolute the authority of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
• We must make the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung's revolutionary ideology our faith and make his instructions our creed.
• We must adhere strictly to the principle of unconditional obedience in carrying out the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung's instructions.
• We must strengthen the entire party's ideology and willpower and revolutionary unity, centering on the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
• We must learn from the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung and adopt the communist look, revolutionary work methods and people-oriented work style.
• We must value the political life we were given by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung, and loyally repay his great political trust and thoughtfulness with heightened political awareness and skill.
• We must establish strong organizational regulations so that the entire party, nation and military move as one under the one and only leadership of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
• We must pass down the great achievement of the revolution by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung from generation to generation, inheriting and completing it to the end.

I doubt very much that they have ever read Rosa Luxemburg. The most they pick up on is the nonsense that Luxemburg had something against the Russian revolution, which is not true.

Anarchism lacks a materialist basis. Above all, an understanding of the role of the state.

The differences between anarchism and Marxism were decided well over 100 years ago. Those works are still relevant, so it is enough to read them.

SMH. I can't wait until Hexbear federates so sectarians can have the sectarianism bullied out of them.