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ziq OP wrote (edited )

Where I'm from there's a clear distinction between anarchists and communists because after our people gained independence, communists and anarchists took 2 wildly opposing views of how to decolonize.

The communists cozied up to Stalinists around the world, amassed power here with their union, secured cushy gov jobs with incredible salaries and pensions for all their friends (while those stuck working in the private sector have to pay their salaries even though we get paid a fraction of what they get paid), became the largest political party, eventually taking the presidency... which ended in unmitigated disaster, a series of huge blows to the working class, a giant wealth transfer from native workers to the neo-colonial capitalist class, and cemented "communism's" complete and utter failure for all to see. Since then they've been licking their wounds and preparing to challenge the conservative party for another round of red capitalism Vs. blue capitalism.

Meanwhile, after incurring heavy losses fighting all the invading colonists as well as the local fascists / nationalists for generations, and in the face of the communists and the capitalists uniting to create a post-colonial state, the anarchists just died out.

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ziq OP wrote

USAmerican settlers have never really had experience with anything other than capitalism, yeah. So you really wouldn't know communism.

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ziq OP wrote

Wouldn't they also be settlers technically?

When you say anarchism and communism do you mean the supposed end goal of communism?

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