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Do some ML cosplay as anarchists to circumvent redscare? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm running around in leftist circles a lot since beginning of last year. I first got introduced to socialism through anarchism [stereotype alert] started to read and went pretty straight to communist and then ML pretty recently. The shoe is still new but it fits very well so far.

Whenever I bring up socialism and communism (let alone ML), I get a lot of flak from other leftists and especially from anarchists. Yet, I feel like a couple anarchist agitators sound like MLs just cosplaying. It would make sense as anarc kids are totally open for socialist ideas if one lets out the "science" part which irritates me a lot.

Does anyone have similar experience or is able to explain?

Btw pls let me know if this is inappropriate to ask. I dont mean to offend anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

In the West it's a lot more culturally acceptable to be an anarchist than it is to be a socialist and especially more acceptable than being a communist. It's like how the 90s Geo Prizm and Toyota Corolla we're the same thing but to laymen the Geo had a bad reputation and the Toyota was considered the best vehicle of the era. Anarchism is when Toyota Corolla, Communism is when Geo Prizm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It depends where. In my country, France, anarchists have a much "worse reputation" (for the normies) than socialists and communists, especially because anarchists mobilize much more during demonstrations and are much more vehement than communists who, well, are big pussies here, not gonna lie : they forget what praxis was

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

Sorry, I still don't understand. Can I please get this analogy but with burgers?