Hello fellow communists and anarkkkidies.
One of the events which I find most fascinating in recent years as a Non-American is the Capitol Hill CHAZ/CHOP thing. I would like this thread to be MLs shitting on it and saying why it was the biggest failure of all time and I want anarchists to explain why it failed but why it does not invalidate anarchism nonetheless.
Let us take a pause from Russ-Ukro, Indo-Pak and focus on this gem of the Yankee Anarcho-Lumpeno-Libtardo axis.
JANNIES PLS DONT SAGE, ALLOW THE PEOPLE'S EXPRESSION TO MANIFEST ITSELF FREELY
>>2271553>I want anarchists to explain why it failed but why it does not invalidate anarchism nonetheless. oh well that's easy
because it was merely a small pocket of anarchy in a small part of a single area in a single city in a single state all of which operate under a capitalist system that is teetering on the edge of fascism.
tl;dr it didn't work because it was a fucking park, my guy. it wasn't ever going to be a long term thing, and nobody expected it to. if they were SERIOUS about their attempt, then there would have been blood. You can tell it wasn't a serious attempt at anarchy because there wasnt a bloodbath.
>>2271591'Free' Christiana was just a hippy happy street in the town of Christiana which receives many tourists.
Such happy-go wanderers will never be able to maintain production.
>>2271553>I want anarchists to explain why it failedI'm not an anarchist but it's pretty obvious why it failed. It had no organization. As soon as things started to get hairy (the shootings/murders) they had no idea what the fuck to do because they are essentially grown children.
>>2271585No. Shouldn't you be begging for money or some shit you fucking retarded loser.
>>2271602communists believe that the state will wither away after a prolonged period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which will also make vanish different classes (i.e classless). Before this stateless society however, communists have big plans on what to do (initial stages, DotP bla bla).
Anarchists say nothing on how to get there. They talk as if the state can just be deleted at will instantly. And what about the current classes. Will 'deleting' the state abolish classes instantly?
>>2271553No thread worth keeping has ever contained the words
JANNIES PLS DONT SAGEPlease go back to your containment board.
it was a meme blown way out of proportion. "CHAZ" existed primarily on social media. minneapolis itself had FAR more serious attempts at revolutionary spontaneous organization. they were short lived and flawed, because they were spontaneous and did not have an organization of experienced cadre to support them.
https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2020/06/minneapolis-sheraton-george-floyd-protests/
>The 136-room hotel had been transformed into a pop-up homeless shelter of sorts, with no staff and virtually no rules. The hotel’s typical guests had been ordered to evacuate when the protests in Minneapolis heated up. In their place now were between 200 and 300 previously unhoused people—no one knew exactly how many—with more arriving each day to be put on a waitlist. When I visited for the first time, in early June, residents napped on leather sofas in the lobby using hotel sheets and pillows. Behind the bar, volunteers handed out chicken fajitas. Food donations filled the kitchen and the walk-in fridge.
>The hotel teemed with volunteers, part of an ever-shifting collection of 120 servers, artists, medics, librarians, social workers, and others. From the start, the operation was democratic and decentralized—there was no hierarchy, no fund for donations, no spokesperson, not even a name (one suggestion was the “Share-a-Ton”). Many were wary, one volunteer said, of “nonprofitizing.” A variety of people-centered belief systems informed the volunteers’ work. Some were Democratic Socialists. Some were students of the radical Catholic Worker Movement. Many of the volunteers were veterans of the protests at Standing Rock.this is one of several examples, i dont have time right now to dig up and post others hopefully someone else can fill in
>>2271580I'm not SUPER deep into anarchism, so take my reply with a grain of salt, but I believe there is no "rule" against having anything with hierarchy. obviously in some form of campaign you would benefit from having some organization.
the difference is that campaign is self contained. it would be fighting for the goal of having an uprising and establishing anarchy, but not to then rule over said anarchy, as anarchy has no rulers.
imagine like a world of warcraft guild, but with the quirk of the guild having no set leader or leadership. within that guild, a group of people decide to start a raid team. within that raid team, you might have one guy thats really good at figuring shit out and calling the shots, so you listen to him when it's raid time. Once the raid is over, or should you willingly exit the raid team, that raid leader cannot then tell you what to do any further, as you are not involved in the raid any further.
But hey, I'm not well read on anarchy, and it's not something I even think is realistic so I never gave it TOO much thought, I just vaguely understand the main ideas (i think)
>>2271754>shit no-one saidRead
>>2271707 again.
>>2272019This guy gets it
>>2272021Bro are you new?
>>2271553This was the greatest disappointment in US leftist history.
What could’ve been a left-wing libertarian socialist movement and region turned into a Nazlib disaster.
>>2272036im seriously asking man
you're talking as if it's evident and can be seen on every crossroads
what do anarchists actually do in practice?
>>2272037Disrupt the current state of being in the moment. Living without the constraints of an oppressive society. If even for a moment, it is a section of people realizing and understanding themselves. That is the appeal of it and part of the praxis. Do you really need more? If so, obviously you don't personally understand what anarchism is about.
>>2272038Not clickin that shit dawg
>>2272040>Disrupt the current state of being in the momenthow tho?
It all sounds very mystic to me
>>2272238>>2272212"accomplisment"
>>2272209maybe it failed because it had nothing revolutionary about it? Maybe the year 2020 is not to be blamed?
>>2272079>>2272040>>2272034 >>2273011>wasn't real anarchismat least MLs own up to their attempts of Real Existing Socialism
All anarchists do is eat hot cum and lie
>>2273083u are Menshevik
u vote democrat
>>2273114u r democrackka
u worship americans
u wish u were american
>>2273119Nobody outside the US wishes they were American
America is a third world fascist hell hole with the worst gun crime possible
I pray to Marx every night thanking him I am not a stupid fat Yankee coloniser
>>2273125I am not American and I wish I was American
the vast majority of Africa and Asia (except China and Japan) wishes they were American
It is a very privileged thing to think that America is crap
>>2273152It's not even anyone's fault either. It's because they were raised up on garbage culture. All culture in America promotes the bourgeois dream.
>Say I don't gotta dance, I make money move If I see you and I don't speak, that means I don't fuck with you I'm a boss, you a worker, bitch, I make bloody moves-Cardi B, famous Berniegal rapper
>>2273264you are a clear-headed man
you will succeed in life
>>2273263ah my apologies I misread you
So you are Anti-Houdini bitching, not anti-FastFoodist .
You are a good man .
Houdini will be dealt with in due time
>>2273287>>2273285he deleted his posts
Now I feel bad
I never wanted to be a bully
>>2273312Yeah honestly, I don't have any critique against him from a personal & organizational standpoint.
I just don't like how pompous, self-righteous, and entitled that he comes across sometimes with the way he was acting like he was creating a brand new theory and naming it after himself and all of that jazz. That sort of thing is just something I'm not a huge fan of and I'd almost say it's as bad as Felix, but he hasn't gotten to the point of fedposting on a daily basis yet at least. So there's that going for him.
>>2273335CHAD HAZ?
NOOOO IM GONNA GET BANNED FOR THIS
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