Submitted by martasultan in Anarchism
I'd seen a lot of disagreement between proponents of both, but all under the assumption that I understood arguments set by both sides, without an explanation of the actual foundation of either, so I come here to ask your opinions on them.
Potemkin wrote
I think anarchists especially are not nationalists, and generally practice an internationalism rooted in "modernist" concepts of unity and solidarity. I think this position is also a natural extension of anarchism's utopian elements, as well as in the belief of a need for revolution (which ideally would be global and coordinated, though not necessarily simultaneous).
I don't think that acting locally while creating international solidarity are mutually exclusive. I think that it would be a problem if local action was at the expense of international solidarity--these two concepts need not be opposed or antagonistic to one another. The phrase "think global, act local" embodies this complementarity.