People keep telling me to come here but all I see is reactionary garbage.
Its not, this site is run by communists, (I’m also the dev for this platform, Lemmy, and am an ML). For some reason a lot of anarchists have started posting here even though they do already have raddle.me . Those posts are all at /c/anarchism .
At least in the initial stages, I’m really reticent to flex admin powers over at /c/anarchism, and think we should have some larger discussions here and elsewhere about what kind of sectarianism should be allowed here, if any, or if it should be limited to certain subs.
My personal preference is that /c/anarchism as a community should be allowed, but that it should limit itself to critiquing the power structures of western capital, and stay clear of imperialist propaganda about AES, or anti-imperialist states. I have IRL anarchist comrades, who don’t spend the majority of their time eating up articles from the BBC or vice or guardian about China / Russia, and would like to have a space here for non-sectarian anarchists if possible.
For now at least, we can have those discussions, but also we could use more communist users posting on /c/communism .
Also, I’m open to any suggestions about the best way to handle this.
Clamp down on Anarchist shits please
They purged the communism sub of mls (on raddle)
Why should we allow them here?
If we can teach anarchists about imperialism, class, material dialectics etc, they will become communists. Just dont let them spread western propaganda.
Sure but what they did to MLs on raddle suggests they have no intention of learning or reading history
Their foreign policy always conveniently lines up with the cia
“Sure but what they did to MLs on raddle suggests they have no intention of learning or reading history”
They’re not a homogenous group who blanketly agreed to ban MLs. So long as they aren’t allowed to spread CIA propaganda, it’s far better to try and convince them to learn about Marxism. Remember that we don’t all start as Marxist-Leninists, and I suspect most of us were at some point anarchists, succdems, etc.
Also I have no idea why, because anarchists should not be outnumbering communists here, I’ve only ever spread this site to communist spaces. We have Lenin on the sidebar ffs.
I think my reddit post was crossposted to an anarchist sub, and I’m starting to get the feel we might have been shared to some closed Anarchist communities. I’ve also been sharing in left unity type communities, so that could be a source. We should probably do a second wave of sharing in Communist/Marxist-Leninist communities.
The reception there wasn’t exactly positive, though.
The top comment is complaining about a car with a piece of cardboard on top to make it look like a tank, why can’t they just appreciate or laugh at anything
