I am an anarchist. But I am not an asshole, I would like to understand why some communists are so hostile against anarchist and why some anarchist are so hostile toward communism.
I don’t understand that. There are a lot of common ways of doing things between anarchists and communism and we both have the goal.
It can seem like a very stupid post, but I am really trying to understand :)
It’s probably a mix of legitimate grievances, and misunderstandings on both sides.
In the end we’re so deep in Capitalist hell, that up to a point most of us only subscribe to a particular ideology in theory. It’s a bit pointless to argue too much about details about different ideologies when there’s so much work we can be doing to be building power in our workplaces, mutual aid / community support networks, open source technologies, etc.
At least we can all agree on a few things such as being anti-capitalist and anti-fascist, and work from there.
I guess in the end we only have control over our own actions, so on your own part it’s a good idea to find out what criticisms MLs may have. Read some ML theory, don’t repeat garbage from the Black Book of Communism, and support the real progress Marxists, etc. have made. But apart from that, just concentrate on tangible projects.