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veuzi wrote (edited )

So how we are supposed to sabotage the Russian invasion from not-that-distant Dresden? By not heating up our houses with Russian gas?

To my knowledge, some German anarchists have conducted direct action style sabotage such as arson against vehicles owned by certain Russian companies, and have also be known to do the same towards companies involved with the Turkish defense industry in solidarity with the Kurds, so they could be referring to something like that. Not that it is very effective as sabotage, but it is a thing that anarchists have been known to do that isn't just a boycott.

In the stated context of anarchists donating money for equipment, they could also be suggesting that giving it to BOAK for example, or other clandestine partisan movements in Russia would be a better option for striking blows against the Russian war effort, than just giving it to the Ukranian military which is at this point well equipped.

Yes of course. But when you entirely leave out Russia's vested economic interests (coincidentally, Donbass, which Russia recently declared as hers, is the richest Ukrainian region), as well as the entire history of Ukraine as basically Russia's colony and Russia's continuing interventions in Ukraine's politics ever since the fall of the USSR, while also forgetting to mention that we saw, not that long ago, how Georgia and Chechnya's attempts at autonomy went, then it maybe might not be entirely out of line to propose that this is all rather quite distasteful tankie propaganda.

It would be better to elaborate on this part, yes, and it is somewhat telling that it doesn't. It is tonedeaf to rely on the "no war but class war" slogan in this context. It's bad but I still wouldn't say it's tankie level bad.

They are not talking about fascism but dictatorship. And coming from 'anarchists' whose entire programme is to advance towards the 'dictatorship of the proletariat', it is not difficult to see that this has very little to do with the criticism of liberalism. After all, they bring up how Czechia's 'democracy' hasn't helped the proletariat that much. But say nothing about how the workers are doing in, well, significantly less democratic Russia.

No love for the dogmatic politics of Marxist class distinctions, and I don't really know anything about these specific Czech anarchists. But from what little I know of post-Czechoslovakia political history, yeah I wouldn't be very enthusiastic for Czech democracy if I was from there either. There is value in calling out the "lesser evil" logic as well as the Marxist dogma.

But there is not that much disagreement otherwise, and I think I am at my limit of how much I'm willing to be the devils advocate for an ancom tract, so I'm fine with leaving it at that.

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