These Western leftist types are cowards. They want to be socialists, but they dont want to defend the image Westerners have of the USSR, Cuba or any other AES state, they don’t want to abandon the liberal principles they were taught at school, they don’t want to accept that a revolution is bloody, they dont want to actually fight capitalism, they dont want to be branded as outcasts by western society. So they take the easy way out and claim they are not like the communists. Instead they are “cool” anarchists, social democrats, progressives, etc.
These Western leftist types are cowards. They want to be socialists, but they dont want to defend the image Westerners have of the USSR, Cuba or any other AES state, they don’t want to abandon the liberal principles they were taught at school, they don’t want to accept that a revolution is bloody, they dont want to actually fight capitalism, they dont want to be branded as outcasts by western society. So they take the easy way out and claim they are not like the communists. Instead they are “cool” anarchists, social democrats, progressives, etc.
Arguably, being “cool” is a pretty successful strategy though