I just think it’s funny that of the two examples Western anarchists love to bring up, one, the Zapatistas, refuses the anarchist label and the other, Rojava, is heavily supported by NATO/the US and looks nothing like the Western anarchist utopia either.
That’s not even a dig at Rojava, imo MLs are a bit quick to just reduce it to a “US proxy”. It’s just a dig at the idealist, detached and superficial nature of anarchist thought.
Yeah, anarchist utopianism is frustrating. So is the western obsession with ideology curation/collection. Like they want to frame their beliefs and put them up in a museum or wear them like a team jersey. But I find that to be more of a westerner/always-online thing than an anarchist-specific thing. The anarchists I know irl don’t sit around and talk about tankies all day
I just think it’s funny that of the two examples Western anarchists love to bring up, one, the Zapatistas, refuses the anarchist label and the other, Rojava, is heavily supported by NATO/the US and looks nothing like the Western anarchist utopia either.
That’s not even a dig at Rojava, imo MLs are a bit quick to just reduce it to a “US proxy”. It’s just a dig at the idealist, detached and superficial nature of anarchist thought.
Yeah, anarchist utopianism is frustrating. So is the western obsession with ideology curation/collection. Like they want to frame their beliefs and put them up in a museum or wear them like a team jersey. But I find that to be more of a westerner/always-online thing than an anarchist-specific thing. The anarchists I know irl don’t sit around and talk about tankies all day