• Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Anarchy is not about […] class

    Uh… I don’t know about that, buddy. I’d be hard-pressed to find an anarchist IRL who doesn’t do class analysis and doesn’t have as a goal the abolition of capitalism.

    What kind of 24 upvotes did you get? Are Lemmy anarchists abandoning class analysis, or is it that you’re just arguing against @Cowbee@lemmy.ml and people will upvote anything smart-sounding against comrade Cowbee?

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      2 days ago

      Of course anarchists “do class analysis” and want to abolish capitalism. But that’s just because those are examples of oppression in our everyday lives. What I mean is that it is secondary to the actual goal of creating anarchic spaces which will could eventually replace both class and capitalism. Class analysis really isn’t useful for that because the only thing it offers is a vague “The bourgeoisie are the enemy”. Until someone points a gun at me or punches me I don’t have any enemies.

      And like I said this is just my version of anarchism. A combination of Pluralism, Pacifism, Apolity and being sooo fucking tired of the endless discussions that lead nowhere.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      To their credit, anarchism is far more diverse in tendency than Marxism is, and as a consequence there are legitimately anarchists that reject class analysis. I don’t think they are common, but they exist.