People who claim to have gone from a “Marxist”(which I doubt they ever had a real understanding of) to anarchist don’t make any sense. Do these people think ignoring the national and global level of the problem will better address it? Do they think the oligarchy won’t equally quell your pitiful attempt at anarchism with tanks and artillery the same as any other attempt to break free of the system?

How could anyone think anarchism could address climate change more effectively when it’s incapable of removing the capitalist system from power as we see throughout history?

  • throwhimintheriver@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Yes, we workers and the mass of small proprietors lead a life that is filled with unbearable oppression and suffering. Things are harder for our generation than they were for our fathers. But in one respect we are luckier than our fathers. We have begun to learn and are rapidly learning to fight—and to fight not as individuals, as the best of our fathers fought, not for the slogans of bourgeois speechifiers that are alien to us in spirit, but for our slogans, the slogans of our class. We are fighting better than our fathers did. Our children will fight better than we do, and they will be victorious.

    • Vladimir Lenin, The Working Class and Neo-Malthusianism
    • lxvi@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      2 years ago

      This reminds me of the potato speech from the memoir of some American Socialist who went to the USSR pre-ww2 and did some time in Magnitogorsk.

      The guy was explaining how things were difficult but better. Basically saying that right now he has one potato: it isn’t a lot but it’s his. He has an actual stake in the potato, and if he struggles and works his whole life for the revolutionary cause by the end he’ll have two potatoes. Even if it isn’t much, it’s something. Its his, and its something to have one’s own destiny in one’s hand, and through hard work be able to grow it, if only a little.

      I really liked that potato speech.