CanaryFeigned

You aren't wrong. Our Anarchist movements are currently being infiltrated by a certain flavor of blue and a touch of yellow, but I can't think of a way to actually do anything against it. They use plausible half-truths that I can't simply deny, but an actually nuanced argument would get me eliminated.

And being a martyr for such a cause is not productive, because the headline would read: "Mentally insane woman defends Putin's Russia"

When my family hates Putin for selling out the USSR and they know it, there's a propaganda channel aimed for boomers and they do literally use that talking point to appeal to ex-soviet citizens. They're quite clever I hate it. But to Anarchists truth is often black and white. Ala Big country attacks on small country, big country bad. It is actually a lot more nuanced than that.

Anarchist are like Skull Face from MGS. Big ambitions, toddler discipline.

"Waaah English bad language gonna ban English and fix the world!!"

"Waaah give every nation a WMD!!!"

What even is a Nation? Why Isn't there a Székely Republic? What about Basques Republic? Should they have WMDs?

Should Micronesia have Nuclear Detents?

Dangerous topic for me to discuss because there's a meme floating around about how there's separatists in the region that borders Russia. I mean seriously? My ass would get bombed to stone age by this foolish meme of a proposal. It's dangerously ridiculous. Sorry if I sound overly passionate I'm just really depressed about the suffering happening literally in the same spot my ancestors went to battle in the hopes that they would never have to go to battle again.

But yeah that's Anarchism, it's not much different than Trotskyism. I will work with them critically, but not take their assistance for granted. Best way to handle them imo. Extreme caution.

As someone who doesn't align with Anarchism. I think this is a weak vector of rebuttal against Anarchism, because there's plenty of non-aggressive treaties and other pacts signed between socialist states and mortal enemies. They can just point at Molotov-Ribbentrop pact for example.

"Stalin had to sign a pact with these guys to buy time! We had to do it with these guys!" It's not exactly difficult for them to do it and therefore I think the question is deeper than that.

You have to ask each group specifically why did they do that, what are they hoping to achieve and what have they achieved?

A Modern day equivalent of a mind breaker would be China-Israel relations. I personally haven't heard of a proper Marxist analysis on that situation. On an emotional level it's at least on par if not worse than someone collaborating with CIA, but I'm supposed to rely on more than gut instinct aren't I?

I have an essay saved from school.

The topic they gave us was: Authority - Why it stifles human development. Which is kind of weird, why was the state funded education teaching me that the state is bad? Incredible.

A lot of people don't trust certain parts of society such as the homeless and I understand why. I wouldn't trust a mafia boss or a mobster, someone with a record for willingness to do crime against the defenseless. It's a fascist mentality.

However I would like to add my two cents with brief experience of homelessness and just general interactions with a broad section of lumpen. Be it street musicians or prostitutes. Sadly I only have anecdotes on my side which is part of the issue, it's very difficult to do empirical research on this subject and avoid biases.

In my brief experience of homelessness the only person who immediately approached me was another homeless person. He immediately noticed that something wasn't right with me and came with advice, in the meanwhile I've likely had more than a 1000 people walk past me without a care and you might wonder why didn't I go to an institution? Well because they dismantled them.

Marxism is based on Dialectical-Materialism, it means the body is the mind is the body and practical experience is necessary for change to happen. You cannot simply "fix" someone with a mental exercise. I think many Chauvinists dismiss the lumpen because they toss them a book and expect class consciousness to sort it out. It's not that simple, change needs structure that supports it.

I have found this one of the major weakness of the modern day left movement. There is a lot of effort trying to pull down the petite bourgeoise, not a lot of efforts pulling up the disenfranchised. It ends up being left upon a religious institution, the Heartfelt liberal or the extraordinarily rare mutual-aid group. All of which get infiltrated by the right.

I have never encountered a communist in the presence of the "lower classes" but I have had reactionaries try to befriend me and idk if people realize how far the influences of 1 neo-fash can spread. So this guy I will call him Measurehead, because that's what his personality was like, yeah a competitive racist. But the guy literally inserted himself anywhere and he's been all the way to China and around. Which has really bothered me because this is the kind of people who go around to the lumpen everywhere and spread their ideology. This one guy has probably ended up influencing hundreds by now if not more. And he was so good at gathering a crowd around him it's like scary to see. The way how he immediately could spot who to turn to in order to gather a crowd around him.

It scares me because the sort of people who get co-opted by the likes of him include people who would be willing to work tripple shifts for half of the pay. Regardless how one feels about the downtrodden, you're going to have to deal with them. That is a fact. This is the reason why I have been trying to shine a little bit of a light on the issue. It's not just because I've read Mao or Malcom or Che, although I believe their personal life experiences had influenced them to arrive to similar conclusions.

That's alright and you aren't wrong in the sense that a lot of Sociology tries much harder to escape Marxism than it tries to invent anything new.

It's how you end up with the likes of "Game theory" Like look at this:

Source: https://napkinfinance.com/napkin/game-theory/

This is to replace Marx's theory of class. One of the many attempts.

So instead of thinking about what the worker wants we strip ourselves down to individuals.

Let's use this as an example to show why Game Theory is so nasty and return to Networking, what even is that? Well it's not friendships, it's relationships specifically with monetary incentive in mind. Under Game Theory these relationships are treated as a math problem. If you fall behind and it's better off to lay you off, you're off the hook. It doesn't matter, to the Capitalists, if it hurts social trust in the long run, the police is there to protect Capital.

I think we're at a point where bourgeoise have been sniffing their own farts for so long they might not be aware of the long term consequences and they've lost sense of their own capabilities. Otherwise it makes no sense how Iran still stands, that was not the plan.

That is true, some people choose to have chickens as pets rather than livestock and they're quite similar to cats in my experience.

I have a peculiar friend who likes to take great care of his animals, when he kept rats he made sure to prioritize their health over personal treats and many people considered him odd for it because "they're just going to croak in a couple years anyways why are you wasting your time with them?" They'd say. It's quite admirable really, but he's also got the collective spirit equal to likes of Max Stirner

Invisible hand is a concept explicitly invented to explain away the contradictions of the "Free market" and it's for the people who lack class consciousness.

Like let's say we have a group of 10 friends and they all come up with 1 business idea. 1 of those ideas remains open after few years and 9 of them fail. Why? "Invisible hand"

Even if you network under "free market" there's still the underlying class interests. Relationships usually do not form cross-class because of those underlying class interests. I can be a Homeless person with 9/10 Charisma and still end up on the streets.

To a libertarian the explanation is simple: "Invisible Hand" that's why. Or it's corruption.

But you can't incentivize equality because it would "Make people lazy" all you can do is have a state guard the Capital and let the "invisible hand" sort it out.