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OdiousOutlaw wrote (edited )

This attitude is prevalent among anarchists living in places that benefit from neoliberal policy. The west and it's current dominance through neoliberalism.

There are far more anarchists who are surprised by the state's capacity for violence (particularly when it strikes them, as it's violence was previously imagined, a hypothetical; not an experienced reality) because they've never really opposed Western power structures before. It's "displaced" from their lives; an abstraction. As opposed just about anyone living somewhere that doesn't benefit from neoliberalism, who have to face their own state violence due to and in addition to the West's. This, of course, doesn't come off as as a surprise to westerners of marginalized groups due to the fact that they don't really "get" all of the benefits of living in the West as well as having to deal with state violence as well.

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