I like the story about how Francisco Ferrer got the funding for his school. He taught Spanish to this old, heavily religious and conservative, rich woman. He was able to change her mind by being respectful and not attacking her beliefs, but by having respectful discussion with her. He was never the one to initiate the discussions, which helped keep her from getting defensive and shutting down. And she ended up funding his rationalist secular school.

No one is a lost cause.

I am an anarchist. And I understand that. I flip flop between having hope and thinking there is none. Some days I think we missed our chance and now we’re too far gone. Other days I look at movements like the Zapatistas and Rojava and think that their may be hope. Ultimately I don’t think any first world country is gonna have it happen. Maybe if a country had a successful anarchist revolution and society, it’d be able to inspire people in first world countries. But I do think our hope lies outside of first world countries. At least till there is a proper example to inspire people.

I do still try to put an effort into organizing where I live. As I think it is still important to do that. Even if I don’t think it will garner fruit till there is a true example of anarchism in action.

Just ignore the Zapatistas who are a current example of anarchism in practice.

And saying the Soviets held little power in the Spanish Republic is just a bald faced lie. The Soviets withheld supplies from non-soviet militias and actively damaged the war effort because they’d rather focus on garnering power than actually fighting fascists.

Maybe quite stabbing us in the back and practice some of that “left unity” you tankies love to preach about

States with that much power will always devolve into authoritarianism. If there is a power structure, it will be corrupted. That’s the issue.

You’re just licking a different boot. All forms of hierarchy need to be abolished. State and capitalist. You don’t advocate for workers, all you advocate for is state control.

The state owning the means of production is no better than capitalists. Only when the workers control it themselves will communism be achieved and settling for anything less shouldn’t be accepted

No it’s an insult for red fascists

Want an an-com friend then?

Damn, the French lost Alsace-Lorraine again

Vexillology and vexillologycj both exist here

Jerboa’s search function is really wonky. There is a Warhammer 40k community. Link

Grimdank and all the shitposting subreddits

Yeah the app is a bit slow and clunky. Joining communities I have to press the button multiple times for it to work, and sometimes it gets stuck on pending till I leave and open it back up. Plus some other weird clunky things I’ve noticed. Hopefully it gets refined as more people join, give the devs some more incentive to work on it.