I've read Kropotkin, Mahkno, and Bakunin as well, along with anti-USSR Marxists like Debord, Gramsci, and contemporary sociology such as Bordieu and Mills, and SO many others. So no, I'm not "stuck" on Lenin and Stalin, I developed my politics through my accumulated experience with both anarchist, Marxist-Leninist, and modern Marxist theory and REAL LIFE organizing, unlike so many of you I'm not just an Online Leftist™

What do you want me to do? Type some abstract lecture? It comes out organically from thread-to-thread in response to others.

Not claiming to have all the answers but gotdamn the shit some of you say here is absolute garbage, it doesn't take a "messiah" to break it down, just literally anyone who has read theory

Because there are probably some people who browse this website with actual intentions on creating a better society trying to develop their politics, and it'd be a tragedy for them to read and absorb the nonsensical drivel that so many users on this site propagate. So I'd like to come in with actual historical/theoretical knowledge that the anarkiddies here literally refuse to learn.

Yeah sure if you love politically illiterate reactionaries posing as revolutionaries/radicals then sure, it's great!

Okay, that's fine I guess, at least you're not pushing that anti-civ an-prim nonsense that the rest of this site seems to love so much.

What's great about individualists is-

Nothing, there is nothing great about individualism as an ideology. Jeez this website is a hellhole.

Got caught at the local Zumiez back in June, haven't stepped foot in the store since. They got a picture of me but didn't record any of my info, and let me go. I wonder what they did with the picture tbh.

How did you manage to cop this? Was it from a retail store or what?

Dude they literally just said they're not being sarcastic or ironic, and that you DO sound white as hell, what are you still going on about?

Oh sure building hospitals, schools, and food production by and for the peoples of a formerly-colonized nation is sooooooo terrible, how awful, wow, so bad. I read your little essay btw, it's a bunch of anti-civ an-prim nonsense, I'm not arguing with you anymore lol have fun with your masturbatory internet politics and doing nothing for the oppressed.

For real, there was nothing remotely "sarcastic" about your original comment, but come on now, we're arguing with an anarchist lmao. I love how your comment got the most upvotes too, are anarchists just politically illiterate and don't even know what their own politics are? Or is this thread actually full of ML lurkers? Lmaoooo.

What exactly are your politics? Did you develop them from memes? Lmao, what exactly have you said here with any substance? Because your politics sound like the same cringelord meme bullshit that 16-year-olds who simply refuse to read a book have, the type who develop their politics from quote images and comic strips.

Um, not really? It sure says a lot about anarchists when criticisms of their dismissal of Marxist importance in the global south and decolonization is seen as "mockery", read a fucking book.

cringing so hard right now

Uh yeah it's kinda hard to industrialize when you're colonized and getting your resources extracted by industrialized capitalist nations, that's... kind of the point of decolonization. Mentioning the industrial revolution and capitalism in this argument is a moot point.

I don't see how they're being sarcastic when it's actually a legitimate statement and one that is characteristically ascribed to anarchists, but okay lmao

Hm not sure if you know this but u/buzz is actually criticizing the fact that you didn't engage with the importance of Marxism-Leninism in decolonization, which is very characteristic of white anarchists and not surprising at all. I can't tell if you guys are upvoting them because you're agreeing with ML or if you're literally too politically vapid to even know what the post was referring to. Anarchists gonna anarchist, I guess.

Thanks for acknowledging the importance of decolonization, comrade. I don't expect these anarkiddies to take off their racism goggles anytime soon.

Seeing as how Marxism-Leninism helped dozens of countries decolonize in their anti-imperialist fronts, as well as provide their citizens with equal rights by law, ungendered education, full housing, healthcare, and boosting industry/infrastructure in places that were previously agrarian/feudal-- I'd say that "Stalinism" was quite a success.

Compare that to the drunken, grain-stealing, rapist bandit nutjob Bakunin, or the failure of anarchist communes to defend their revolution against capitalist intervention.

It wasn't perfect, but it accomplished and defended far more than any anarchist ever.

Lenin Lives.

Eh, I've never personally tried this method although I've heard of it. Keep in mind that some LP are aware of this tactic and might be a step ahead of you already. I usually lift and leave on the same visit.

And when it comes to Walmart, I guess it depends on the area you're in, but even in my not-that-nice area, it's very easy to steal from Walmart. Just... be smart. I steal from Walmart and Target the most despite people saying those are difficult stores.

it was a zumiez, they didn't get my name or i.d or anything, just a picture of me. i could be "anybody" really

i usually take a few items into the dressing room, make sure that there isn't some kind of strict policy on dressing rooms, because normally, if they have rules set up, they clearly have a shoplifting problem and are on the look-out, if that's the case, be extra careful.

otherwise, just go into the dressing room, fold the clothes as small as possible, but also keeping it flat (you'll figure it out), and i usually stuff a shirt into my pants, kind of wrapped around my leg so it doesn't look too obvious something is in my pants

then i continue shopping, and walk out.